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Old Mutual plc
Registered in England and Wales No. 3591559 and as an external 
company in each of South Africa (No. 1999/004855/10), Malawi  
(No. 5282), Namibia (No. F/3591559) and Zimbabwe (No. E1/99)

Registered Office:
5th Floor
Old Mutual Place 
2 Lambeth Hill
London EC4V 4GG

www.oldmutual.com

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ANNUAL REPORT  
AND ACCOUNTS 2011

connecting with customers 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Old Mutual is an international  
long-term savings, protection  
and investment group

OVERVIEW

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Our business at a glance
Delivering on our strategy
Business model
Key performance indicators

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10  Chairman’s statement
12  Group Chief Executive’s statement
18  Group Chief Executive’s Q&A
20  Market review

bUSINESS REVIEW

Long-Term Savings

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34  Banking
44  Short-Term Insurance
48  US Asset Management
54 

 Non-core and discontinued business 
operations

58  Group Finance Director’s statement 

RISk AND 
RESPONSIbILITy

72  Risk and capital management
86  Responsible business

gOVERNANCE

90  Board of directors
94  Group Executive Committee 
96 

 Directors’ report on Corporate Governance 
and other matters

109  Remuneration report

Group Financial Statements
126  Statement of directors’ responsibilities 
127  Consolidated income statement
128 

 Consolidated statement of comprehensive 
income
 Reconciliation of adjusted operating profit to 
profit after tax

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130  Consolidated statement of financial position
131  Consolidated statement of cash flows
132  Consolidated statement of changes in equity
134  Notes to the consolidated financial statements

Financial Statements of the Company
232  Company statement of financial position
233  Company statement of cash flows
234  Company statement of changes in equity
235  Notes to the Company financial statements

241 

 Independent auditor’s report to the members 
of Old Mutual plc

MCEV
242  Statement of directors’ responsibilities 
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245 

Independent auditor’s report
 Adjusted Group MCEV by line of business
 Adjusted operating Group MCEV statement 
of earnings
 Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings 
per share
 Group Market Consistent Embedded Value 
statement of earnings 
 Notes to the MCEV basis supplementary 
information

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ShAREhOLDER 
INFORMATION

286  Shareholder information
290  Glossary

WhAT’S ONLINE

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Cover picture: Tavaziva Madzinga, Managing Director, Old Mutual Kenya.

Forward-looking statements
This Report contains certain forward-looking statements with 
respect to Old Mutual plc’s and its subsidiaries’ plans and 
expectations relating to their financial condition, performance 
and results. By their nature, forward-looking statements 
involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to future 
events and circumstances that are beyond Old Mutual plc’s 
control, including, among other things, UK domestic and 
general economic and business conditions, market-related 
risks such as fluctuations in interest rates and exchange 
rates, policies and actions of regulatory authorities, the 
impact of competition, inflation, deflation, the timing and 
impact of other uncertainties or of future acquisitions or 
combinations within relevant industries, as well as the impact 
of tax and other legislation and regulations in territories where 
Old Mutual plc or its subsidiaries operate.

As a result, Old Mutual plc’s or its subsidiaries’ actual future 
financial condition, performance and results may differ 
materially from the plans and expectations set forth in such 
forward-looking statements. Old Mutual plc undertakes no 
obligation to update any forward-looking statements 
contained in this Report or any other forward-looking 
statements that it may make.

Acknowledgements
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Overview

welcOme

Our strategy is to build a long-term
savings, protection and investment group 
by leveraging the strength of our people 
and capabilities in South Africa and  
around the world. We will focus, drive  
and optimise our businesses to enhance 
value for shareholders and customers.

Our vision is to be our customers’ most 
trusted partner – passionate about helping 
them achieve their lifetime financial goals.

Our values:
integrity
respect
accOuntability
pushing beyOnd  
bOundaries

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For more information on how 
we are embedding our values 
across the business
please go to page 86 

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Overview

Our business  
at a glance

Below is a high-level summary 
Below is a high-level summary 
of the Group and our four 
of the Group and our four 
principal business units.
principal business units.

grOup

Old Mutual is an international 
long-term savings, protection 
and investment Group.

Adjusted operating profit  
(AOP) 2011

£1,515m

2010: £1,371m

Funds under management  
(FUM) 2011

£267.2bn

2010: £295.2bn

Number employed1 2011

57,430

2010: 55,730

Primary locations
 ■  LTS – Southern Africa, Europe, Colombia, 

Mexico, India and China
 ■  US Asset Management – US
 ■  Banking – Southern Africa
 ■  Short-term insurance – Southern Africa

Operational highlights
 ■ AOP per share up 10% to 15.7p
 ■ Full dividend for the year increased 25%  

to 5.0p

 ■ Financial Groups Directive (FGD) surplus  

of £2.0 billion

 ■ Well on track to deliver 2012 financial targets

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lOng-term savings (lts)

We provide innovative life 
assurance-based solutions 
which address both protection 
and retirement savings needs.

Our brands

1  Includes Group Head Office, Bermuda, 

Nordic and US Life.

2  % of total operating business unit’s AOP after 

tax and non-controlling interests.

3 % of FUM in Group core operations.

4  Excluding operating results from affiliates held 
for sale or disposed of at 31 December 2011  
and adding back $12 million of restructuring costs.

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Adjusted operating profit (AOP) 2011

£793m

2010: £787m

Funds under management  
(FUM) 2011

£108.5bn

2010: £117.9bn

Number employed 2011

22,851

2010: 21,729

Operational highlights
 ■ Net client cash inflows of £3.2 billion, despite 

worsening European sentiment in H2

 ■ Non-covered sales, up 14% on a constant 

currency basis, to £12,836 million

 ■ Life sales (annual premium equivalent (APE) 

basis) decreased by 6% to £1,207 million, with 
reduced Legacy sales in Wealth Management

 ■ APE margins increased to 15%, with 

improved margins in Wealth Management 
and Emerging Markets

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Contribution to Group

AOP2

FUM3

60%

40.6%

banking

We have a majority 
shareholding in Nedbank,  
one of South Africa’s leading 
banks, which also has  
banking interests in other 
countries in southern Africa.

Our brand

Adjusted operating profit (AOP) 2011

£755m

2010: £601m

Core tier 1 ratio

11.0%

2010: 10.1%

Number employed 2011

28,494

2010: 27,525

shOrt-term insurance

We provide short-term 
insurance solutions in  
southern Africa through  
Mutual & Federal.

Our brands

Adjusted operating profit (AOP) 2011

£89m

2010: £103m

Underwriting margin

5.0%

2010: 7.6%

Number employed 2011

2,390

2010: 2,222

us asset management

We aim to grow our customers’ 
savings and wealth, whether 
through active and direct asset 
management or the selection of 
funds and managers for 
customers to invest in.

Some of our brands*

(* See full list of affiliates on page 50)

Adjusted operating profit (AOP) 2011

£67m

2010: £72m

Funds under management  
(FUM) 2011

£148.8bn

2010: £166.4m

Number employed 2011

1,564

2010: 1,537

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Operational highlights
 ■ Strong headline earnings growth of 26%   

on a constant currency basis

 ■ Non-interest revenues up 17% and net interest 
income up 9%, on a constant currency basis

 ■ Credit loss ratio improved to 1.14% from  

1.36% in 2010

 ■ Core tier 1 ratio 11.0%, up from 10.1% in 2010

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Contribution to Group

AOP2

FUM3

28%

3.6%

Operational highlights
 ■ Underwriting result reduced to £30 million, 
reflecting softening rates and the expected 
normalisation in claims patterns
 ■ Gross premiums increased by 5%
 ■ iWyze progressed well and continued to meet 

premium growth targets

 ■ Mutual & Federal remains well capitalised, with 

a 66% international solvency margin

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Contribution to Group

AOP2

FUM3

6%

0.1%

Operational highlights
 ■ Investment performance continued to improve
 ■ The new USAM management team are 

in the process of divesting several affiliate 
firms to improve USAM’s longer term 
financial performance

 ■ AOP was up 16% (constant currency) to  

£82 million in USAM’s continuing operations4
 ■ Net client cash outflows in USAM’s continuing 

operations4 reduced to £4.2 billion from 
£7.9 billion (on a constant currency basis)

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AOP2

FUM3

6%

55.7%

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Overview

delivering On Our strategy

Old Mutual’s vision is to become our customers’ 
most trusted partner – passionate about helping 
them achieve their lifetime financial goals.

Our five strategic priorities 

Progress during 2011

1.  Develop the customer 

proposition and experience

Since 2009, we have made a concerted effort 
across the Group to put the customer first in 
everything we do. We will continue to deepen 
our understanding of our customers’ needs 
and accordingly improve the product offering, 
the customer experience and the channels 
through which they are served.

2.  Deliver high performance in all 

business units

To ensure that we provide value to shareholders 
and customers, we will continue to drive high 
performance in our businesses by delivering 
profitable growth and operational efficiency, 
and by optimising risk and return. 

 ■ Good progress on expanding and improving the product proposition across  

the Group, with a number of new product launches

 ■ The dedicated customer team has made progress towards improving 

the customer proposition and experience across the Long-Term Savings 
(LTS) business

 ■ Improvement in reporting of customer information

 ■ 2011 business plan exceeded and RoE targets delivered 
 ■ Circa £600m of debt repaid by January 2012
 ■ Good progress in transformation of Nedbank Retail and Nordic
 ■ iCRaFT delivered to time, quality and budget

3.  Share skills and experience 

across the Group

We will continue to drive revenue and cost 
improvements across the Group, by leveraging 
and sharing our capabilities in South Africa 
and around the world. 

 ■ Improvement in our international mobility
 ■ Significant strengthening of functional communities across the Group
 ■ Launch of a Group Intranet
 ■ Improved knowledge-sharing across LTS businesses, supported by dual 

reporting in new functions 

 ■ Commenced implementation of LTS IT plan
 ■ South African Greenlight product launched in Mexico and plans to launch 

in other markets

4. Build a culture of excellence

We will continue to embed our ACT NOW! 
Leadership behaviours across the Group  
and measure our progress through the 
Barrett Culture Survey.

 ■ Significant progress in building a strong management team
 ■ Consistent and improved executive performance management 

processes implemented

 ■ Application of pool-based approach to reward implemented in LTS, Head Office 

and Mutual & Federal (M&F)

 ■ Culture Survey implemented successfully and strong focus on actions  

to address survey results

5.  Simplify our structure to 

unlock value

To deliver the full value of the Group to 
shareholders we will continue to optimise  
our structure. 

 ■ Sale of US Life completed
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 ■ Sale of Nordic business agreed
 ■ Sale of Skandia Finland agreed
 ■ Preparation of US Asset Management (USAM) for Initial Public Offering (IPO)
 ■ Continued progress of the run-off process at Bermuda

To see Glossary terms 
please go to page 290

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Our strategy is to build a long-term savings, protection and 
investment group by leveraging the strength of our people 
and capabilities in South Africa and around the world.

2011 Trend
2011 Trend 

2012 Priorities
Priorities for 2012

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LTS Net Client Cash Flow (NCCF) % (NCCF/Opening FUM)1 
LTS Net Client Cash Flow (NCCF) % (NCCF/Opening FUM)1 
LTS Net Client Cash Flow (NCCF) % (NCCF/Opening FUM)1 

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1.7%
1.7%
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2009
2009
2009

4.6%
4.6%
4.6%

2010

2011

2.7%

2.7%
2.7%
2.7%

2010
2010
2010

2011
2011
2011

Adjusted Operating Profit (AOP) Earnings Per Share
(EPS) and RoE performance1
Adjusted Operating Profit (AOP) Earnings Per Share
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Adjusted Operating Profit (AOP) Earnings Per Share
(EPS) and RoE performance1
Adjusted Operating Profit (AOP) Earnings Per Share
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(EPS) and RoE performance1
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(EPS) and RoE performance1
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10.4%
10.4%
10.4%
AOP EPS (pence)

15.7p
14.6%
15.7p
15.7p
14.6%
14.6%
14.6%

14.2%
14.3p
14.3p
14.3p
14.2%
14.2%
14.2%

10.2p
10.2p
10.2p

10.4%

14.3p

15.7p

10.2p

2009

2011

■

■
2009
2009
2009
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■

AOP EPS (pence)
AOP EPS (pence)
AOP EPS (pence)

■

■
■

2010
RoE%
2010
2010
RoE%
2010
RoE%
RoE%

Cost savings (£m) run-rate achieved and 2012 target1    

2011
2011
2011

Cost savings (£m) run-rate achieved and 2012 target1    
100
Cost savings (£m) run-rate achieved and 2012 target1    
Cost savings (£m) run-rate achieved and 2012 target1    
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2012 Target

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2010

2011

89

90

56

2010
2010
2010

2011
2011
2011

2012 Target
2012 Target
2012 Target

 ■ Be customer-focused in everything we do
 ■ Ensure a positive customer experience across the Group
 ■ Improve customer insight and segmentation to serve customer 

needs better

 ■ Improve Skandia UK and Skandia International’s product 

offering and platform functionality

 ■ Develop our investment management capability to support  

key customer segments and attract platform flows

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 ■ Deliver or exceed the 2012 business plan 
 ■ Improve USAM business flows and margin
 ■ Deliver M&F step change targets 
 ■ Continue Nedbank Retail repositioning and focus on growing 

Non-Interest Revenue (NIR) 

 ■ Invest to improve LTS businesses in UK, International and  

South Africa

 ■ Develop Luxembourg hub for European affluent business
 ■ Leverage iCRaFT to drive a risk-adjusted approach to profitability

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 ■ Collaboratively explore and pursue African growth opportunities 
(Nedbank, M&F and Old Mutual Emerging Markets (OMEM))

 ■ Develop our Global Distribution capability to attract 

incremental asset flows

 ■ Encourage and support mobility between businesses
 ■ Leverage core capabilities across Group (eg in the areas of IT, 

back-office processing and product knowhow)

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Cultural entropy and engagement

11%-27%

Cultural entropy and engagement
Cultural entropy and engagement
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Cultural entropy and engagement
Cultural entropy and engagement
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The range of Cultural Entropy scores 
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across the Group businesses. This is a 
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new measure from the Culture Survey: 
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Cultural Entropy 2011
Employee Engagement 2011
the lower the score, the healthier 
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Cultural Entropy 2011
Employee Engagement 2011
the culture.
Cultural Entropy 2011
Employee Engagement 2011
Financial Groups Directive (FGD) surplus £bn  

Employee Engagement 2011

Cultural Entropy 2011

42%-66%

The range of Employment Engagement 
scores across the Group businesses. 
This revised metric gauges employee 
commitment and discretionary effort.

 ■ Embed ACT NOW! behaviours across the Group and measure 

progress through the annual Culture Survey

 ■ Develop the leadership pipeline and invest in the next 

generation of leaders

 ■ Improve diversity of senior teams 

1.5

2.1

Financial Groups Directive (FGD) surplus £bn  
2.5
Financial Groups Directive (FGD) surplus £bn  
Financial Groups Directive (FGD) surplus £bn  
2.0
2.5
1.5
2.5
2.0
2.5
1.0
2.0
1.5
2.0
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1.5
1.0
1.5
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1.0
1.0
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2.1
2.1
2.1

1.5
1.5
1.5

2009

2010

2011

1. Numbers restated for discontinued operations 

2011
2011
2011

2009
2009
2009

2010
2010
2010

2.0

2.0
2.0
2.0

 ■ Take actions to meet £1.7bn enhanced debt reduction target
 ■ Complete the sale of the Nordic and Finnish businesses and 

return capital to shareholders

 ■ Continue to explore options for an IPO of USAM
 ■ Actively manage Bermuda to mitigate risks 
 ■ Optimise Group balance sheet and capital structure
 ■ Ensure corporate functions are fit for purpose and cost-effective

1. Numbers restated for discontinued operations 
1. Numbers restated for discontinued operations 
1. Numbers restated for discontinued operations 

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business mOdel

We bring a range of resources, expertise, people  
and processes together across our businesses in  
order to develop the customer proposition and 
experience, thereby driving value for shareholders, 
employees and bond holders.

Skills and resources

What we do

People

Product  
development

Customer

Financial outcome

Net Client  
Cash Flow  

£(11.4)bn

Sales

Payments

and

Values

IT & 
administration

Savings

Protection

Investments

Funds under 
management 

£267.2bn1

£1,515m2

Profit  
Free Surplus 
generated  
=

Ordinary 
dividends  
(per share)  
Return on  
equity  
Debt costs  

£986m

5.0p

14.6%
£128m

Capital 
allocation

Distribution

Risk 
management  
& governance 
framework

Knowledge  
and 
experience

Funds under management

Profits & cash

Shareholders, employees, Government, bond holders

1. Group Core operations
2. AOP before tax and non-controlling operations

Our five strategic priorities

1 Develop the customer proposition and experience 

2 Deliver high performance in all business units 

3 Share skills and experience across the Group 

4 Build a culture of excellence 

5 Simplify our structure to unlock value

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please go to page 290

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Our business model is simple – driving value 
for shareholders by harnessing the resources  
and skills we have across the Group into 
Savings, Protection and Investments.

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Meeting customer needs

Investment dynamics 

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We invest customers’ funds, and their value rises or falls 
with the underlying markets.

We earn fees on the funds we manage. This, combined 
with tight expense management, generates profits and 
cash. Cash generated is used both to invest in future 
growth and to reward our shareholders.

Long-term need for our products

Our markets are characterised by resilience and stability. 
Whatever happens in the world economy or the equity  
and currency markets, the basic need of consumers  
around the world to save for critical life events and for 
retirement, against a background of declining state and 
corporate support, does not change.

In our long-term savings, protection and investment 
business we look after and grow our customers’ money, 
offering financial security against single or multiple events. 

For example, we provide for them in retirement through 
pensions and annuities and help them to save for their 
children’s education.

We provide them with appropriate and tax-efficient 
investment products, and protection products offering  
life assurance and disability benefits. In emerging markets 
we also provide products to help them save for their own 
and their family’s funerals – these have particular cultural 
importance in many of the countries we serve.

Multiple customer interactions

Customers buy our products either directly or through  
an intermediary such as an independent financial adviser. 
This generates inflows of cash.

At the same time we also make payments to our customers 
– returning their money in line with our promise. This generates 
outflows of cash.

Our aim is that, in any period, our net flow – ie inflows less 
outflows – should be positive. This increases our overall 
funds under management.

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Overview

key perFOrmance  
indicatOrs (kpis)

Set out below are the KPIs that we use to 
monitor the performance of our business. 

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Financial KPI definition
Return on Equity (RoE)%

Relevance

A relative measure expressed as a 
percentage, calculated by dividing IFRS2 
Adjusted Operating Profit (AOP) (post-tax 
and minority interests) by the average 
capital tied up in the business, where 
capital is defined as shareholders’ equity 
excluding hybrid capital.

Return on Equity is an indicator of our 
profitability and efficiency, demonstrating 
how much profit has been generated from 
the resources provided by our shareholders.

Return on equity (RoE)1
(%)

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14.6

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11.3

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NCCF/Opening Funds 
under Management1,3 
(%)

NCCF/Opening Funds Under Management 
(FUM) measures our success in attracting 
new business and retaining existing 
customers, and provides a good indication 
of investor confidence in our ability to 
manage their funds effectively.

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2008

2007

Group Value Creation (LTS only)1
(%)

Group Value Creation for the Long-Term 
Savings covered business measures the 
contribution to Return on Embedded Value 
from management actions of writing 
profitable new business, and managing 
expense, persistency, risk and other 
experience compared with that which 
was assumed.

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Net Client Cash Flow (NCCF)/
Opening Funds under 
Management %

This measure indicates the extent to 
which client funds are either retained  
or lost during the year. Inflows are driven 
by premiums, deposits and investments, 
whereas outflows are driven by claims, 
surrenders, withdrawals, benefits  
and maturities.

Group Value Creation % 
(Long-Term Savings only)

Calculated as the Market Consistent 
Embedded Value (MCEV) value of new 
business plus MCEV experience 
variances divided by the opening MCEV 
balance, expressed as a percentage.

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Financial KPI definition
IFRS Operating Profit Margin  
(basis points)

Calculated as pre-tax adjusted operating 
profit divided by the average funds under 
management for the period, expressed in 
basis points.  

Relevance

IFRS Operating Profit Margin1  
(basis points)

IFRS Operating Profit Margin measures the 
profit margin we have earned on the funds 
we manage. An improved basis point 
margin is an indicator of the success a 
company is having in growing its revenue 
at a greater rate than its expenses.

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

Adjusted Operating Earnings  
per Share (pence)

Calculated as post-tax adjusted operating 
profit divided by the adjusted weighted 
average number of shares (WANS), held 
by our investors.

Adjusted Operating Earnings  
per Share1 (pence)

Adjusted Operating Earnings per Share 
(EPS) is an indicator of our profitability that 
measures how much we earn for each 
share held. The trend in the movement 
of EPS demonstrates our rate of growth.

2011

2010

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42.0

38.7

33.4

55.2

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Customer numbers

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Growth in the number of customers 
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2 IFRS – International Financial Reporting Standards. 
3  The core continuing business (excluding Dwight, Lincluden and OMCAP, which were held for sale at 31 December 2011) 

showed an improvement from -1.1% in 2010 to -0.1% in 2011. 

4 Customer numbers are reported for the first time in 2011. Customer numbers prior to 2011 are not available.

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chairman’s statement

It is very satisfying to report to you that,  
having committed ourselves to a significant  
re-shaping of our Group and improved  
financial performance, 2011 marks a  
milestone in the achievement of those goals.

Our asset disposal programme not only allows us to 
restructure and substantially strengthen our balance 
sheet, but also to deliver real shareholder value 
through the proposed special dividend to be paid once 
the sale of our Nordic business has been completed. 
Reflecting the progress that has been made, 
particularly during the last year, your company was,  
as the year began, the best performing insurance stock 
in the FTSE 100 Index in terms of total shareholder 
return over the past three years. 

During 2011, we completed the sale of our US Life operation 
and the closure of our Swiss business, in line with the 
commitments to simplify the Group that we gave to 
shareholders and our wider stakeholder interest group 
in 2010. We are on track to complete the disposal of our 
Nordic businesses later this month. We have recently 
announced the sale of our business in Finland and of 
Dwight, one of our US Asset Management affiliates. We 
have also repaid £0.6 billion of debt to date as we move 
to complete our £1.5 billion debt repayment programme 
by the end of the current year.

While AOP IFRS earnings per share grew to 15.7p from 
14.3p (after taking account of our Nordic operations being 
treated as discontinued), our net result after tax and 
minorities recorded a profit of £667 million following a loss 
of £282 million in 2010. With the benefit of the forthcoming 
receipt of the proceeds of sale from our Nordic operations, 
we have indicated our intention to increase our overall debt 
repayment target by a further £200 million beyond the 
previously-targeted figure of £1.5 billion in due course.

The Company’s recovery and progress during the 
past three years are reflected in the remuneration of 
senior management, as described in more detail in the 
Remuneration Report, showing that we have successfully 
aligned management incentives with the delivery of 
shareholder value. I am pleased to note that the value 
created will also benefit the many participants around 
the Group in our various employee share schemes.

Board 
We have continued the process of refreshing the Board, 
with the retirements of Rudi Bogni and Nigel Andrews at 
last year’s AGM and the recruitment, announced today, of 
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South African business world will be directly relevant to our 
strategy to grow our emerging markets businesses and I 
welcome her to the Board. Her appointment, along with 
that of Eva Castillo which I reported last year, has helped 
us already to achieve our 2013 year-end target for gender 
diversity on the Board.

Dividends and share consolidation 
As well as the 18p per share special dividend that is to be 
paid following the completion of the Nordic sale, we have 
announced a significantly increased final dividend for the 
year of 3.5p per existing share, equivalent to 4.0p per new 
ordinary share once our shares have been consolidated. The 
final dividend will be paid on 7 June 2012 at the same time as 
the special dividend and I would draw to your attention the 
full timetable for the final and special dividends and the share 
consolidation, which is set out in the Shareholder Information 
section of this document. We anticipate further progression 
in our ordinary dividends over the coming years. In light of 
the complexity involved in our share consolidation, we have 
decided not to offer a scrip dividend alternative for this year’s 
final dividend and the Board will decide later this year whether 
to offer such an alternative for the 2012 interim dividend.

Annual General Meeting 
Our AGM will be held in London on 10 May 2012 and will 
again be webcast. There will also be an opportunity for 
shareholders to submit questions to be dealt with at the 
meeting. The shareholder circular relating to the AGM 
includes further details of these matters.

Shareholder communications
We are seeking to improve the efficiency with which 
we communicate with shareholders and to reduce our 
environmental footprint. To this end, we will be moving, 
later in 2012, towards using electronic communications 
to a greater extent than currently. Over 50,000 of our 
shareholders already use electronic communications and we 
anticipate that significant savings can be achieved through a 
more general migration to electronic communications as the 
default option. Further details of what is involved (including 
an option to continue to receive physical documents) will be 
sent to shareholders later this year.

Other matters
I am conscious of the role that companies like ours need  
to play in the wider communities in which we operate. I am 

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Infrastructure, Housing and Agricultural funds in Africa and 
the real difference these are making to local people.

I would like to express my and the Board’s appreciation for 
the exceptional work that employees of the Group have done 
during the year. Our recovery and current strength are due  
to the continuing efforts of all of our staff around the world.

Future
The Group enjoys a much stronger balance sheet and 
greater strategic focus as a result of the achievements of  
the past year. The strength of our businesses in South Africa 
encourages the Group to explore new African markets 
selectively, while we are also aiming to improve our wealth 
management businesses so that they will succeed in the ever 
more demanding developed markets driven by regulatory 
changes. As we complete our three-year turnaround plan 
this year, we look to the future with confidence that we will 
continue to grow value for shareholders, while meeting our 
obligations to all our stakeholders.

Patrick O’Sullivan
Chairman 
9 March 2012

As we complete our three-
year turnaround plan this 
year, we look to the future 
with confidence that we  
will continue to grow value 
for shareholders, while 
meeting our obligations  
to all our stakeholders.

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Introduction
A year of delivery
This has been a year of both operational and strategic 
delivery for Old Mutual, including the imminent sale 
of our Nordic operations, which are therefore not 
included in the Group’s adjusted operating results for 
2011. Our IFRS basis adjusted operating profit (IFRS 
AOP or AOP) was up 14% due to improved trading 
and the operational improvements implemented by 
management over the last few years. Group return 
on equity (RoE) was up 40 basis points at 14.6%.

This excellent performance was delivered against a backdrop 
of testing macro-economic conditions and continued 
economic uncertainty in a number of our markets. We have 
continued to focus on delivering our strategy and remain on 
track to meet, and in some cases exceed, our 2012 targets.

The Group is in a strong financial position. At 31 December 
2011, our FGD surplus was £2.0 billion and we had total 
liquidity headroom of £1.5 billion. On 21 March 2012 we 
expect to receive £2.1 billion in cash from the disposal of 
the Nordic business. 

Streamlining and simplifying the business
In 2011, we made significant progress in delivering our 
strategy: to build a long-term savings, protection and 
investment group by leveraging the strength of our people 
and capabilities in South Africa and the rest of the world, 
which will enhance value for both our customers and 
shareholders, and enhance our overall RoE. 

When we announced this strategy in March 2010, we 
undertook to create value for both shareholders and 
policyholders. In 2011, we have made significant progress  
in this regard. We continued to streamline and simplify 
our business: 

 ■ Concluded the sale of US Life for $350 million
 ■ Closed Switzerland to new business
 ■ Agreed the sale of our Nordic business to Skandia Liv 

for £2.1 billion

 ■ Announced the sale of our Finnish business to  

OP-Pohjola Group

 ■ Decided to consolidate our other European businesses 

under one management team.

We continue to explore a partial IPO of our US Asset 
Management (USAM) business in line with our stated 
strategy, but we remain focused on building margins, 
improving investment performance and driving growth 
in the business.

While we have already taken considerable steps in 
restructuring the Group, we will continue to evaluate the 
optimum shape of the business and will consider all 
options in the pursuit of creating value for shareholders 
and policyholders alike. We will continue to be guided by 
our strict criteria for keeping businesses within the Group. 

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Meeting our targets
In March 2010, we set ourselves challenging targets: two 
thirds of the way through our three-year strategy, we have 
either met, exceeded or are well on track to achieve these 
goals. We set ourselves a target of reducing £100 million 
of costs across the Group and at the 2011 year end had 
delivered £111 million in run-rate savings. Our Long-Term 
Savings (LTS) business was tasked with improving its RoE 
to between 16% and 18%; in 2011, it achieved an RoE of 
20% (18% including Nordic). We said we would reduce our 
Group net debt by £1.5 billion by the end of 2012 and, with 
the proposed disposal of the Nordic business, we will 
achieve this target and now intend to repay debt of £1.7 
billion, having achieved a £0.6 billion reduction so far. 

We set ourselves 
challenging targets: 
two thirds of the way 
through our three-year 
strategy, we have either 
met, exceeded or are 
well on track to achieve 
these goals.

Focusing the business
Our strategic imperative is to become more customer-
focused and to leverage our strengths across our 
businesses. We have refocused our LTS businesses to 
ensure that they are aligned with customer needs and 
have identified four key customer segments which we will 
serve: the Retail Mass market in Emerging Markets; the 
Retail Affluent market, primarily in Europe and South Africa; 
the International Affluent; and the Institutional market. 

We are rolling out a measure of customer advocacy, 
the Net Promoter Score, across our Group to monitor 
how satisfied our customers are with our service. Our 
businesses in South Africa, the UK, Sweden and the 
Skandia International business all won various awards in 
2011 for superior customer service. Nedbank successfully 
launched mobile banking in South Africa, with 652,000 
customers already signed up.

We have continued to seek ways of leveraging our strengths 
across our businesses. We are looking to roll out our 
Greenlight protection product into more territories this year, 
following its successful launch into Mexico in 2011. Our tied 
agency force in Mexico has benefited from the expertise  
we have in South Africa. We launched a new product into 
Colombia, with South Africa providing the back office 
servicing, information technology (IT) and product support. 

IT is an area where we see significant scope to gain 
efficiencies by using our combined Group purchasing 
power, and we have undertaken two initiatives in this area. 
We outsourced the South African IT, voice and data 
infrastructure network services of Old Mutual, Nedbank 
and Mutual & Federal (M&F) to Dimension Data, and we 
expect to generate significant local savings for the operating 
businesses over the next five years. In addition, we have a 
seven-year deal with T-Systems for them to provide IT 
support services for Old Mutual South Africa and M&F. 
We will look at rolling out this agreement to other Emerging 
Markets businesses, including Rest of Africa, Colombia 
and Mexico. We have plans for further IT efficiencies and 
operational improvements as we apply best practice 
techniques, remove duplication and improve delivery 
standards and customer service.

We will continue our restructuring programme with USAM, 
working to achieve the required operating margin and net 
client cash flow (NCCF) targets and we will invest in M&F 
to strengthen its franchise.

£1,515m

Adjusted Operating Profit 

We have further strengthened our operational management 
team across the Group. Ian Gladman, previously Co-Head 
of Financial Institutions, EMEA for UBS Investment Bank, 
was appointed Group Strategy Director and a member of 
the Group Executive Committee (GEC). As part of the 
strategy portfolio handover, Don Hope has now stepped 
down from the GEC and will retire at the end of 2012. Sue 
Kean was appointed Group Risk Officer and has joined the 
GEC; Ralph Mupita has been appointed Chief Executive of 
LTS’s Emerging Markets business; Paul Feeney, formerly 
head of distribution of BNY Mellon, has been appointed 
Chief Executive of LTS’s Asset Management business; and 
Peter Todd has been appointed Managing Director of M&F.

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CONTINUED

We will continue to 
deliver shareholder value 
by putting the customer 
first in everything we do.

Emerging Markets
This has been another good year for Emerging Markets, 
with the business continuing its growth momentum and 
showing an increasing breadth across its geographic and 
customer footprints. Local currency sales were up and 
NCCF showed a particularly good uplift from the prior year. 

In 2011 South Africa delivered another good performance, 
with AOP growing by 5%. The Mass Foundation Cluster, 
which sits within the Retail Mass customer segment and is 
a key area of growth for us, has had another excellent year 
and we expect this strong growth to continue. In Retail 
Affluent, we saw double-digit profit growth in the year. This 
market grew in excess of 15% from 2007 to 2010, with the 
growth skewed to the younger age group and previously 
disadvantaged communities. We believe that the retail 
affluent market in South Africa will continue to show 
good growth potential for us. Our South African Corporate 
business had an excellent second half. 

Our South African business is managing the issue of 
regulatory examinations very carefully, and we have 
extensive training plans and other measures to help our 
representatives pass their exams ahead of the 30 June 
2012 deadline. Additionally, the Group created more than 
1,500 jobs in 2011. 

We see exciting growth opportunities for Old Mutual across 
sub-Saharan Africa and we are actively exploring means 
for organic and inorganic growth on the continent. As part 
of this growth plan, and as we announced in February 2012, 
our non-binding offer has been accepted by Ecobank 
Transnational Incorporated (ETI) for the purchase of Oceanic 
Life, a Nigerian life assurance company acquired by ETI 
when it bought the Oceanic Group in November 2011. 
Oceanic Life has a Net Asset Value of $16 million and 
approximately 2% of the Nigerian life assurance market. ETI, 
with whom Nedbank has a strategic alliance, is the leading 
independent regional banking group in Africa, with 
operations in 32 countries across the continent. We have 
signed a 10-year agreement with ETI in Nigeria to distribute 
our products through their branch network. 

Looking forward
We now have an attractive and resilient business portfolio. 
We have three excellent businesses in South Africa: the life 
and savings business of Old Mutual; Nedbank; and M&F. 
We have significant presence in selected emerging markets 
which have sizeable populations, under-penetrated financial 
services markets and strong gross domestic product (GDP) 
growth. We also have specialist, low-risk businesses in 
European markets, which include the leading platform in the 
UK. The new management team at USAM is addressing the 
issues of margin, investment performance and growth. 

While there has been a significant amount of change over 
the past two years, we remain committed to building a long-
term savings, protection and investment Group and to drive 
and support Nedbank to become Africa’s most admired 
bank. We will continue to put the customer at the centre of 
the business and provide them with innovative, transparent 
and flexible products. We will maintain tight control on 
costs; a disciplined approach to risk management, 
governance and allocation of capital; we will seek to ensure 
that everything we do improves the businesses we own and 
will provide value to our shareholders and our customers.

Our vision, strategy and strategic priorities remain 
unchanged. We will continue to deliver shareholder value by 
putting the customer first in everything we do, building high 
performance businesses, sharing our core competencies 
across the Group, embedding our culture of excellence and 
simplifying the Group’s structure to unlock shareholder value.

Dividend
Given the continued progress in achieving our debt 
repayment programme, the Board has considered the 
position in respect of a final dividend for 2011, and is 
recommending the payment of a final 2011 dividend of 3.5p 
per share (or its equivalent in other applicable currencies). In 
February 2012, we announced we would pay a £1.0 billion 
special dividend, 18p per share, subject to shareholder 
approval of the Nordic disposal and its completion, and 
shareholder approval of the related share consolidation.

The Board intends to pursue a progressive dividend 
policy consistent with our strategy, having regard to overall 
capital requirements, liquidity and profitability, and targeting 
dividend cover of at least 2.5 times IFRS AOP earnings over 
time. In future, we expect to set interim dividends routinely 
as 30% of the prior year’s full dividend. 

Review of Operations
Long-Term Savings
Our LTS division delivered strong results for the year with 
operating profits of £793 million, up 3% on a constant 
currency basis. This was driven by strong profit growth in 
our Emerging Markets business. We have strengthened the 
capabilities of these businesses and are seeing cohesion in 
the management of business units across geographies.

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We already have a management team in Nigeria and 
Nigeria will act as a hub for our expansion into West Africa. 
Similarly we plan to expand into East Africa from our 
established base in Kenya and into other African countries 
where we see value-creating opportunities. This expansion 
will be via our ‘business in a box’ model which uses 
common products, IT, systems and processes that can 
be replicated across markets, after allowing for local 
market requirements, with limited customisation. This 
approach increases the speed to market, while reducing 
costs and in-country risk. We are on track to meet our 
target of the Rest of Africa recording profits equal to 10% 
of South Africa’s profits by the end of 2012 and 15% by 
the end of 2015.

Wealth Management
Wealth Management performed well, building on 
2010’s momentum, despite the effects of the eurozone 
crisis, which squeezed incomes and lowered investment 
confidence, particularly in the final quarter of the year. 
In the UK, we saw a continuation of the trend of 
Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs) transferring their 
business to platforms. We now have around 9,000 IFAs 
using our platform, with our assets increasing by 13% 
to approximately £19 billion and NCCF of a pleasing 
£3.3 billion. Over the last three years, assets held on UK 
platforms have more than doubled to over £170 billion 
and, while currently around 33% of the UK’s retail long-
term savings are conducted via platforms, we expect that 
to become more than two thirds by the end of the decade.

We see a number of areas of growth for our platform 
which we are actively addressing, including increasing 
decumulation options, alternative investment options 
and passive investments. It is apparent that our platform 
customers would like to have more online access to their 
investments on our platform, and we are working with IFAs 
to determine the level of demand for them to be able to 
authorise wider access to the platform for their customers. 
We are excited about the opportunities we believe that the 
Retail Distribution Review (RDR) will present to our business 
and we are confident that we are well placed to succeed 
through: our size, as the platform with the most funds 
under management (FUM); our financial strength and 
stability; and our effective technology. Skandia International 
is also developing a market-leading end-to-end wealth 
management service called ‘Wealth Interactive’, which 
will also be RDR-compliant for UK clients.

We are combining our Wealth Management Continental 
Europe business, which comprises France and Italy, 
with Skandia Retail Europe (Germany, Austria, Poland 
and Switzerland) to create Wealth Management Europe. 
This new business unit will increasingly focus on the 
Retail Affluent market, which encompasses 30 million 
households, holding €2.3 trillion of assets, growing at 
5% per annum and is a market we believe is currently 
underserved. These customers are active and highly 
demanding: they are seeking transparent, flexible and 
modern products and are increasingly looking to 
e-channels to service them. The new business unit 
brings together 736,000 customers, over €11 billion of 
FUM and 800 employees. The integration will continue 
throughout 2012 and we will be implementing further 
plans to improve our product offering and customer 
service. Wealth Management Europe will be reported 
as part of Wealth Management in future.

5.0p

Total dividend for 2011 (4.0p in 2010) 

Asset Management
We have appointed Paul Feeney as Chief Executive of 
the LTS Asset Management business, which primarily 
comprises Old Mutual Investment Group South Africa 
(OMIGSA) and Skandia Investment Group (SIG). In line 
with our client-centric business philosophy, OMIGSA is 
splitting its central research team to align the research 
analysts better with specific equity boutiques and their 
unique philosophies. This means that two equity boutiques, 
Toros and Value, fall away, and the remaining equity 
boutiques now comprise complete investment teams, 
each with substantial experience and appropriate 
investment skills, in order to achieve even better 
equity returns for our clients.

During the period, OMIGSA raised R9.3 billion for its 
Housing Impact fund, which aims to provide 120,000 new 
low-cost houses, and a further R1.2 billion for a schools and 
education fund in South Africa. In total across Old Mutual, 
we had £2.8 billion of FUM in social, environmental and 
transformation-related investments, including OMIGSA’s 
Housing Impact fund, the South African Schools and 
Education fund, Futuregrowth’s Agri fund in South Africa 
and the African Infrastructure Investment Managers fund.

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Nedbank 
Nedbank performed well for the year ended 31 December 
2011, reflecting the benefits of disciplined execution of its 
business plans and excellent progress with key strategic 
initiatives. Headline earnings grew strongly, by 26.2%, to 
R6,184 million for the year (2010: R4,900 million), driven 
primarily by 16.6% growth in non-interest revenue (NIR), net 
interest margin expansion and continued improvement in 
Nedbank Retail’s credit loss ratio.

These results were underpinned by continued delivery on 
our key strategic focus areas of repositioning Nedbank Retail, 
growing NIR and implementing the portfolio tilt strategy. In 
the Rest of Africa we deepened our strategic alliance with 
ETI by providing a facility in support of ETI’s corporate 
development programmes, including its transformational 
banking acquisition in Nigeria, and as a result secured rights 
to acquire up to 20% of ETI within two to three years.

Mutual & Federal
M&F delivered a sound underwriting result in 2011, with 
results reflecting a more normalised year compared to the 
very favourable trading conditions and benign claims 
environment in 2010. Management is focused on managing 
its expense base and on driving premium growth through 
alternative distribution channels including: direct through 
iWyze; underwriting management agencies; and niche 
businesses. iWyze continues to meet its targets for growth 
in premiums and is performing in line with our expectations.

As part of the Group’s ongoing capital management 
programme, M&F restructured its capital base and paid 
nearly R1 billion in ordinary and special dividends in 2011. 

13%

EPS up 13% (constant currency basis)

We now have an 
attractive and resilient 
business portfolio.

US Asset Management 
The new management team at USAM are focused on 
building the multi-boutique business around long-term, 
institutionally-driven, active asset management to generate 
alpha for our clients. This focus has led to the announcement 
of the disposal of the Dwight, Old Mutual Capital (OMCAP) 
and Lincluden affiliates. Building our global distribution 
capability is key for USAM’s future growth and we have 
appointed Julian Ide, who was previously Head of Institutional 
Business at BBVA Asset Management, to lead OMAM UK 
and the global distribution effort. We have also appointed 
Olivier Lebleu as Head of non-US Distribution. Olivier was 
previously a partner and member of the investment advisory 
committee at Stenham (Montier & Partners).

In USAM’s continuing operations we are seeing improving 
margins and an improvement in investment performance at 
the affiliates. For the year ended 31 December 2011, 62%  
of assets outperformed benchmarks, compared to 57% at 
31 December 2010. Over the three- and five-year periods to 
31 December 2011, 68% and 67% of assets outperformed 
benchmarks, compared to 49% and 65% at 31 December 
2010. The increase was driven by improving performance in 
International Equity and Global Fixed Income. There are 
early signs of an improvement in NCCF and we believe 
that this trend will continue, providing we maintain good 
investment performance.

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Board changes 
We are pleased to welcome Nku Nyembezi-Heita to the 
Board as an independent non-executive director. Ms 
Nyembezi-Heita is CEO of ArcelorMittal South Africa. She is 
currently an independent non-executive director of Old 
Mutual’s wholly-owned life subsidiary, Old Mutual Life 
Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited (OMLACSA), 
but will be stepping down from the latter position as part 
of her arrangements for joining the Old Mutual Board.

Following the Annual General Meeting on 12 May 2011, the 
following changes to the Board came into effect:

 ■ Rudi Bogni and Nigel Andrews, who had both served 

on the Board as non-executive directors for nine years, 
retired from the Board

 ■ Alan Gillespie succeeded Rudi Bogni as the Company’s 

Senior Independent Director

 ■ Russell Edey succeeded Rudi Bogni as Chairman of the 

Remuneration Committee. 

South African Empowerment
In South Africa in 2011, OMSA and Nedbank maintained 
a Level 2 rating status and M&F a Level 3 rating status as 
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment contributors.

Outlook
While we remain cautious over the timing of any end to 
the current uncertain and volatile economic climate, we 
are confident that our unique mix of businesses, and our 
financial strength and flexibility, will allow us to continue 
to deliver value to our shareholders.

Julian Roberts
Group Chief Executive 
9 March 2012 

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grOup chieF  
executive’s Q&a

Julian Roberts answers questions on 
Old Mutual’s achievements in 2011 
and what lies ahead for the Group.

1. What do you see as the 
Company’s key achievements 
over the course of 2011?

2. Now you have sold the 
Nordic business, what is next 
for Old Mutual in 2012?

Our vision and strategy remain unchanged. We are focused 
on building a long-term savings, protection and investment 
business group. 

We will continue to put our customers first. We believe that 
for us to be successful, understanding what our customers 
want, and providing it in a transparent and flexible manner 
will be key to our future growth.

In 2012, we must ensure that we keep building value in the 
Long-Term Savings businesses.

Our Emerging Markets business has grown very well 
over the past two years, and we will aim to maintain this 
level of growth. In the UK, this is a vital year as the Retail 
Distribution Review will be implemented from 1 January 
2013. While we have the largest market share of assets 
under management amongst UK platforms, a key focus will 
be to broaden customer choice by offering more of our own 
products that customers can elect to include on the 
platform and therefore capture more margin. At US Asset 
Management, the volatile markets in 2011 made it 
a challenging year for our asset managers, but we have 
seen our investment performance continue to improve. It 
is critical that we maintain this improvement in 2012 as 
better investment performance should lead to improved 
net inflows. 

While we did not actively try to sell the Nordic business, we 
have always said that we will look to create shareholder 
value where we can. In our view this deal creates value for 
both Old Mutual shareholders and Skandia policyholders.

This has been a year of significant delivery both 
operationally and strategically for Old Mutual. We have 
seen good growth across the Group and a particularly 
pleasing performance from our Emerging Markets 
business, and I am delighted the Board was able to declare 
a total dividend for the year of 5p per share, 25% up on 
2010 and in line with our progressive dividend policy. This is 
in addition to the planned special dividend of 18p per share 
following the sale of our Nordic operation.

We have remained focused on delivering the strategy that 
we announced in March 2010 and on creating sustainable, 
long-term shareholder value. 

We said we would streamline and simplify the Group and 
have taken significant steps towards doing this. We have sold 
our Nordic business for a cash consideration of £2.1 billion 
subject to shareholder approval; we have agreed the sale of 
our Finnish business; we have closed Switzerland to new 
business; and we have completed the sale of US Life. 
Furthermore, we are consolidating our mainland European 
businesses – Retail Europe and the Italian and French 
businesses – under a new entity to be managed within 
the Wealth Management unit.

In March 2010, we set out a number of targets to achieve  
by the end of 2012 and, two years into this three-year 
programme, we are well on the way to meeting our aims. 
Excluding Nordic, we have delivered £89 million of run-rate 
savings versus our target of £90 million a year, the target 
having been adjusted for the Nordic sale. For our Long-
Term Savings business, we set a return on equity target of 
16% to 18%, and in 2011 it achieved an RoE of 20%. 

We are making good progress in achieving our £1.5 billion 
debt-reduction target for the end of 2012, with £600 million 
already repaid by March 2012. Following the sale of our 
Nordic business, we have decided to look to repay an 
additional £200 million of debt in due course.

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3. How are you developing  
the Group’s footprint in both 
developed and emerging 
markets?

4. How are you leveraging the 
strengths of your operations in 
different regions across the 
globe?

In emerging markets, our focus is very much on sub-
Saharan Africa, where we are already the largest life 
insurance and asset management company and where  
we plan to become a dominant financial services company. 

This is one of the cornerstones of our strategy and I am 
pleased to say that we are making significant progress, 
although we still have more to achieve.

These are markets that are demonstrating very attractive 
growth levels and have a rapidly growing population that  
is increasing its wealth, has limited Government provision of 
welfare and is currently underserved by financial services 
companies. 

We have more than 165 years of experience of operating  
in Africa. We will look to build on our existing capabilities 
and technical expertise in South Africa to drive our growth. 
We know how to design and distribute products in 
emerging markets. We are experienced in running tied 
agency forces which we believe are key to distribution in 
Africa, but we are also harnessing new distribution channels 
such as cell phones. We can use a world-class and 
low-cost administrative base in South Africa.

We have stated our objective that Africa’s profit contribution 
to the Group will be 15% of South Africa’s by 2015. We will 
look to expand our footprint in the Rest of Africa through 
infill acquisitions and/or new business investment.

In developed markets, financial services are evolving rapidly, 
driven by regulatory developments, changing customer 
demand and reduced state support for people in 
retirement. The business models that will succeed in these 
markets are capital-efficient and offer transparency, choice 
and flexibility to consumers. We have the business model to 
thrive in this environment. 

Our greatest asset is the deep and broad experience of our 
people and to this end we have substantially improved 
international mobility and opportunities. I am very pleased 
with how this has gone and provided role models for others. 

We have used our expertise of running a tied agency in South 
Africa to help improve the productivity of our Mexican agency 
force. We believe this agency expertise will be vital when it 
comes to building our franchise in sub-Saharan Africa where  
we see using agents to distribute our products as key to growth. 

In terms of product-sharing, we have launched the South 
African Greenlight product into Mexico and have already 
sold 1,534 policies. We see further opportunities to roll out 
Greenlight into other markets we operate in, for example in 
the UK. The joint venture between Old Mutual South Africa 
and Mutual & Federal to provide a direct offering, iWyze, is 
meeting our internal targets and Old Mutual Finance is 
interacting with our Mass Foundation customers in a way that 
they value and that leads to better service and lower costs.

We are able to benefit from leveraging our strength as a 
Group in our deployment of Information Technology and we 
have already taken some significant steps to achieve cost 
synergies in this area. These include outsourcing of voice and 
data infrastructure network services for our three South 
African businesses to Dimension Data and a seven-year deal 
with T-Systems for IT support services for Old Mutual South 
Africa and Mutual & Federal. We have set ambitious targets 
for further IT savings as we apply best practice techniques, 
remove duplication and redundancy, and improve delivery 
standards and customer service.

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business Overview

market review

Old Mutual works across a wide range of markets, 
products and services. But our offer is driven by 
ensuring our strategy fits with the wider macro-
market place. Here we give a high-level overview of 
the drivers in our key markets – in South Africa,  
the UK and across the globe.

Demographics
In most developed markets, average life expectancy is 
increasing. For example, in the UK average life expectancy 
was 71 years in 1970, but had risen to 80 years in 2010 – and 
continues to rise. In South Africa, average life expectancy 
was 53 years in 1970, but had fallen to 52 years in 2009.

Government and public sector support
Ageing populations and rising expectations of health are 
reducing the extent to which governments can afford to 
meet their social commitments, specifically on pensions 
and healthcare. Increasingly, individuals will need to fund 
their own provision. 

At the same time, living standards and expectations have 
also increased. In general, people will spend longer in 
retirement and, as a result, will need a higher level of 
pension savings to fund their desired standard of living. 

These three themes all provide opportunities for Old Mutual. 
We are well positioned in our markets, have the products 
that consumers need, and have built effective distribution 
channels for those products.

In emerging markets, growing economic empowerment 
is driving demand for a broad range of protection, savings 
and investment products.

Global macro-economics
Emerging economies are experiencing higher GDP growth 
rates than developed economies. Morgan Stanley forecast 
that emerging markets will generate 80% of global GDP 
growth in 2011 and 2012.

As emerging markets develop, average incomes rise and 
the requirement for financial services evolves from simple 
funding and transactional products to more sophisticated 
protection and savings products.

Regulatory change
Within financial services, we have seen increased 
regulatory intervention over the past few years and 
we expect this to continue. 

We have anticipated and prepared for many of the 
regulatory changes ahead, including Solvency II in 
Europe and Solvency Assessment and Management 
in South Africa, and the changes in the UK arising 
from the Retail Distribution Review. We believe 
that some of our competitors are finding these 
developments more challenging.

Our two biggest markets in terms of profits are Africa and 
Emerging Markets and the Affluent markets of the Wealth 
Management business.

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1m population

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Market position 
Customers  
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Malawi 

14m population

Market position 
Customers  

Botswana 

2m population

M&F market position 

Life: #1, AM: #1 
238,000
#2

Life: #1, AM: #1 
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South Africa 

51m population 

Target market  
Customers2  
M&F market position   

Namibia 

2m population

Market position 
Customers  
M&F market position 

Zimbabwe 

10m population

Market position 
Customers  
M&F market position 

Kenya 

45m population

Market position 
Customers  
1 All data based on Old Mutual estimates
2 OMSA retail customers

Life: #8, AM: #1 
27,000 

Old Mutual in Africa
There are some 1 billion people in Africa – around 200 
million households – and this population is increasingly 
urbanised, as happened in Asia in the recent past.

McKinsey has forecast a 50% increase in the number of 
households with discretionary income between 2008 and 
2020. This represents a considerable opportunity and our 
aim is to find ways of driving a proportion of that income 
into savings. The work we are doing on financial education 
and literacy in the region supports this goal.

The powerhouse of our African business is South Africa,  
where we have a long heritage, a sizeable customer base of 
over 3 million, and a strong and trusted brand. 

The demographics of South Africa are very favourable 
for future growth in financial services. Large numbers of 
people are coming into the economic system and the 
retail pool is growing rapidly. We have identified a target 
market of some 13 million customers and we currently  
have around a 25% share of that market. We offer both  

our Retail Affluent and Mass Foundation customers a 
comprehensive range of savings, protection and investment 
products, and we have a strong share of both segments. 

We also have a substantial Corporate segment and are 
the largest asset manager in South Africa. We manage 
approximately 2.7% of the South African equity market.

South Africa represents 50% of our total value of  
new business, 40% of MCEV (covered business), 81%  
IFRS AOP profits from operating units and 20% of funds  
under management.

Elsewhere in Africa our operations are based in countries 
with relatively high per capita GNP, but relatively low 
penetration of the insurance markets. 

We currently have more than 300,000 customers in these 
countries – and in most cases are the market leader. We 
believe these markets offer significant growth opportunities 
which we are well placed to capture.

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market review

African financial markets are at different stages in their lifecycles

Dormant

Early stage

Developing

Maturing

Tanzania

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Pop: 14m
2.18%3

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Pop: 45m
2.8%1

Pop: 10m
2.77%2

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Pop: 2m
7.3%1

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Pop: 1m

Swaziland

Pop: 150m
0.5%1

Nigeria

Financial services lifecycle stage

Nominal GDP/capita (USD):
South Africa $8,506; Namibia $5,783; Swaziland $3,544; Nigeria $1,630; Kenya $769

1. Insurance penetration 2010 (Swiss Re Sigma report) – includes Life and Non-Life business
2. Source: AXCO Insurance Market Report, March 2011, 2007 data presented
3. Source: AXCO Insurance Market Report, March 2011, 2008 data presented

We are seeking to enhance this part of the business.  
We are refreshing the systems infrastructure and  
expect to roll this out across the business in 2012.

UK
A decade ago, the investment market for UK retail 
customers was predominantly served by with-profits 
products. These were difficult for customers to understand 
and charges were opaque. They offered customers a 
limited form of guarantee, but, in general, sub-optimal 
investment performance. Unlike most of our UK peers, 
we do not have a with-profits business. 

Moving on from with-profits, the market has evolved 
through unit-linked products – offering some transparency 
and some investment choice – to multi-manager solutions 
offering a wider range of investment options from a broader 
choice of providers. However, all of these are still essentially 
product-driven.

The current Old Mutual model is fundamentally different.  
An increasing number of consumers are seeking the help  
of independent financial advisers (IFAs), who are evolving 
from simply selling products to becoming professionally-
trained financial planners, helping customers to make the 
right investment choices for their personal circumstances 
and financial goals.

Affluent markets of Wealth Management 
International
Our Wealth Management business services the International 
‘offshore’ customers of the UK, South Africa and the Rest 
of the World. Clients are typically internationally mobile 
professionals who seek investment security and choice. 
It also services the UK Affluent segment.

The international markets served by Skandia International 
show strong growth, with good potential for further 
expansion.

The capitalised annual growth rate of offshore assets 
held by high-net-worth individuals is expected to increase 
at good rates in the future.

Our current business is focused on the Far East, Middle 
East, Latin America, South Africa and Europe. We see 
potential for increasing our capabilities in these markets  
and also for venturing into new markets. We have plans for 
product development using new technology such as tablet 
devices.

The Skandia International business model allows us to 
generate strong revenue flows from the assets we manage. 
This results in attractive profitability and returns on equity: 
historically, margins have been high compared with onshore 
models, where margins have been constrained by greater 
competition and regulation.

We are now seeing increased margin pressure from other 
providers, and regulators are intervening more in this 
segment of the market. Nevertheless, we believe it will 
remain an attractive part of our overall business proposition.

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excl. Japan

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   Markets we serve       Markets we do not serve

Source: BCG Global Wealth Market Sizing Database 2009; expert interviews. 

Proportion of adviser business
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Source: Research conducted by Skandia. 

Current size of platform market

FUM = £110bn1

■ Skandia
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■ Co Funds
■ Hargreaves Lansdown
■ Next six companies

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Source: Navigant – Platforms Lessons learnt & looking forward – 
December 2008.

Source: Navigant Consulting Research – July 2008.
1. Lipper Q2 2010.

Our proposition is to aid this shift towards a financial-
planning focus by providing appropriate tools and  
support. The mechanism we use to provide this service  
is the ‘platform’ – which is also the conduit through which 
we bring a variety of investment products to IFAs and  
their clients. 

The platform market is growing and we are sharing in that 
growth. In the past three years, we have more than doubled 
the assets under management on our platform. We have 
now recorded eight successive quarters with positive net 
client cash flows on to the platform, and we retain the 
highest market share, of around 30%.

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the three largest account for around three-quarters of total 
platform assets. We expect consolidation in the future as 
some smaller players leave the market and the remaining 
participants potentially capture a disproportionate share  
of market growth.

The UK continues to be a market in transition, largely as  
a result of the Retail Distribution Review. From the end of 
2012 this will force a move to greater choice and 
transparency, including fundamental changes to charging 
structures. Our model is designed to work in this new world 
and we have already withdrawn some products that were 
not totally compliant. As a result, we can focus on providing 
capital-light products that meet customer needs without 
being distracted by the regulatory changes.

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LoNg-tERm SaVINgS

Key financial highlights

Return on equity (RoE) 
(%)

APE sales 
(£m)

2011

2010

NCCF 
(£bn)

2011

2010

Non-covered sales
(£m)

2011

2010

Our brands

Adjusted operating profit 
(pre-tax)

£793m

2010: £787m

Funds under management

£108.5bn

2010: £117.9bn

Number of employees

22,851

2010: 21,729

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2010

MCEV (covered business) 
(£m)

3.2

2011

4.3

2010

1,207

1,290

5,713

5,913

Value creation – (VNB+experience 
variance)/MCEV
(%)

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2011

12,836

11,492

2010

5.2

3.9

Long-Term Savings CEO and new members of the LTS Executive Committee

1  Paul Hanratty

CEO Long-Term Savings and Chairman, 
Old Mutual South Africa

2  Ralph Mupita 

Chief Executive Officer,  
Emerging Markets, LTS

3  Rose Keanly 

Director LTS Customer Services 
and Administration 

4  Paul Feeney 

Chief Executive Officer,  
Asset Management, LTS

5.  Carlton Hood 

LTS Strategic Marketing Director

6.  Bryce Johns 

LTS Products & Proposition Director

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The Long-Term Savings (LTS) 
division offers life assurance, 
pensions and investment 
products and operates in 
southern Africa, Europe, 
Asia and Latin America.

Overview
In each of our LTS markets, our vision is to be our 
customers’ most trusted partner, passionate about 
helping them achieve their lifetime financial goals. We 
continue to develop LTS-wide management roles to ensure 
we exploit synergies and establish centres of excellence. 
These roles – covering IT, product, LEAN methodology, 
asset management and strategic marketing – are helping 
us to gain competitive advantage by delivering appropriate 
products and services efficiently. During 2011 we made 
continued progress in implementing this strategy, creating  
a centralised LTS Asset Management team and an LTS 
Strategic Marketing team.

The customer – at the heart of everything we do
Successful financial services businesses are those that 
understand their customers and put them at the very heart 
of the business. We aim to help them achieve their lifetime 
financial goals by providing these services through our life 
assurance, pensions and investment products:

 ■ Advice (financial planning and investment)
 ■ Savings solutions (for shorter-term goals)
 ■ Investments (for long-term goals including retirement)
 ■ Decumulation (post-retirement)
 ■ Protection (life assurance and personal lines).

As highlighted in the Group Chief Executive’s review we 
offer these services to four customer segments. We have 
provided more detail of these segments opposite:

 ■ Retail Mass: customers with limited income, who need 
a broad range of financial services including protection 
and savings products associated with critical life events 
and, in time, their retirement. This group of customers 
needs simple, affordable and value-for-money solutions 
– and also financial education. It is a large and fast-
growing market in South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and 
our other emerging markets.

 ■ Retail Affluent: customers with middle to high 

incomes, who need flexible and tax-efficient investment 
products, together with protection products, to achieve 
their financial goals and protect and grow their wealth. 
While these customers are financially literate, they do 
need access to advice and tools that will help them 
make informed investment choices. This market is 
relatively mature in South Africa, but there are good 
growth opportunities in Europe, China and India. 
 ■ International Affluent: customers with significant 
investible assets, who need flexible, tax-efficient 
solutions that build or protect their wealth. The main 
markets for these customers are Europe, the Middle 
and Far East, Latin America and South Africa.
 ■ Institutional: customers who are looking for 

differentiated, active asset management and employers 
who are looking for solutions for the pensions they 
manage on behalf of their employees.

To help us put the customer at the heart of everything we 
do we are structuring the business around these customer 
segments. In future annual reports we will also review the 
LTS results using these customer segments.

Our current customer segments are split across the 
business units for which we disclose results in this report: 
Emerging Markets, Nordic, Retail Europe and Wealth 
Management. But following the corporate actions in 
Nordic and in Retail Europe referred to in the Group Chief 
Executive’s review for 2011, we will operate LTS in two main 
business units in future, serving their own distinct territories: 

 ■ Emerging Markets will serve South Africa, sub-Saharan 

Africa and new emerging markets 

 ■ Wealth Management will serve the UK, International and 

Continental Europe.

These are described in more detail on the following page.

Find further details of the operational  
results of the business within the  
Financial Disclosure Supplements on: 
www.oldmutual.com/ir

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LTS provides high returns combined with high growth

High RoE and cash generation

High revenue growth potential

Opportunities to grow

 ■ South Africa Retail Affluent

 ■ Wealth Management

 ■ Rest of Africa

 ■ South Africa Corporate

 ■ South Africa Mass Foundation 

 ■ Asia

 ■ Mexico 

 ■ Namibia

 ■ Colombia

 ■ Slower growth

 ■ Large market share

 ■ Generate high cash returns that fund 
new business, allow for acquisitions 
and support Group dividend

 ■ Lower profit generation relative to 

 ■ Require funding, at least until 

enterprise value

 ■ Higher cost bases

break-even

 ■ Rapid sales growth

 ■ Potential for rapid profit growth on 

 ■ New business tends to be capital-

restructuring/efficiency gains

intensive

 ■ New business and growth largely 

 ■ Potential to grow embedded/enterprise 

self-funded 

value rapidly

 ■ New business tends to be cash-

 ■ Cash generation in the  

intensive where we pay for distribution

medium term

Emerging Markets: Old Mutual South Africa (OMSA) is 
one of the largest and longest-established financial 
services providers in South Africa – providing individuals, 
businesses, corporates and institutions with long-term 
savings, protection and investment solutions. Because we 
are now leveraging the business into other high-growth 
economies, we have combined it with our Latin American, 
Asian and African businesses. In Latin America we operate 
in Mexico and Colombia. In sub-Saharan Africa we operate 
across a broad range of countries including Swaziland, 
Namibia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya and Nigeria. In Asia 
we operate joint ventures with Kotak Mahindra in India 
and Guodian Corporation in China. 

Wealth Management: Operating mainly under the 
Skandia brand we serve customers in the UK, across 
our offshore International bases and in selected European 
markets. Our offer is based on open and guided architecture 
accessed through unit-linked life insurance, pensions and 
mutual funds.

During 2011 we made continued progress in streamlining 
our structure – announcing the sale of our US Life, Nordic 
and Finnish business units and the closure to new business 
of Skandia Switzerland. In the results disclosed in this 
report, Nordic has been treated as a discontinued business. 
In early 2012, we announced that we would be 
consolidating our Retail Europe business with Skandia 
France and Skandia Italy into Wealth Management Europe, 
within our Wealth Management business and alongside the 
UK and International businesses. This will allow us to serve 
our customer segments better in these countries, while 
giving shareholders an improved RoE. 

Strategy
Our strategy aims to:

 ■ Complement our strong, highly profitable and mature 
South African business by leveraging its capabilities to 
grow and develop our businesses in selected African, 
Latin American and Asian markets

 ■ Operate capital-efficient, fast-growth businesses in 

selected UK and European markets

 ■ Exploit capital, cost and revenue synergies between the 

various businesses.

It is underpinned by building a culture of customer focus 
and value creation internationally.

For the next three years we have five strategic priorities:

 ■ Build stronger relationships with our end customers 

across LTS

 ■ Invest to build leading businesses in each of our chosen 

geographical areas 

 ■ Invest in core competencies to strengthen business 

performance

 ■ Standardise and industrialise core systems and 

processes

 ■ Build a single LTS organisation and culture.

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Achieving our LTS targets

Driving revenue growth

Reducing cost

Synergies

Implementation

Measures

 ■  Exploit growth opportunities in 

 ■ (VNB + experience variance)/MCEV

emerging markets

 ■ Position to those product areas and 

geographies that have optimal 
long-term growth rates such as 
pensions and structured investment 
solutions

 ■ NCCF/FUM

 ■ Specific efficiency programmes in each 

 ■ Administration expenses

business

 ■ Adopt LEAN methodology across all 

 ■ Expenses

businesses

 ■ Potential IT synergies, particularly in 

outsourcing 

 ■ Product lines extended to other 

markets

 ■ APE

Capital efficiency

 ■ Focus on capital-light products

 ■ Equity

 ■ Diversification benefits

These five core competencies will be key to our success as 
an integrated division:

 ■ Advice-led distribution
 ■ Insurance and investment solutions
 ■ Superior investment returns
 ■ Customer insight
 ■ Digital connectivity.

In South Africa we already have scale and exceptional 
levels of quality, straight-through processing and low unit 
costs. We are experienced in developing products for 
sophisticated markets as well as simple products for 
low-income markets, and we have experience in pricing 
diverse risks. We run multiple distribution channels and 
have a comprehensive understanding of different types 
of distribution. We already have experience in leveraging 
these capabilities into high-growth markets such as India 
by sharing product experience, people and professional 
skills, systems and processes, and distribution knowledge.

Our Skandia businesses have built excellent market 
positions as capital-efficient businesses in the UK and 
offshore providers in many other international markets. 
They have a history of innovation, and the customer value 
that they deliver presents opportunities to take market share 
from more traditional, less customer-oriented competitors. 
As our customers move online, we are investing in the ability 
to provide world-class IT tailored for local markets while 
achieving international economies of scale. We aim to grow 
revenues while constraining costs and ultimately driving up 
operating performance through LEAN methodology.

As we leverage our capabilities in South Africa into emerging 
markets and improve the operational performance of our 
European businesses, we see opportunities to achieve 
synergies between them. Our businesses connect at a 
capital level and are well placed to benefit from the 
implementation of Solvency II expected in 2013. There are 
opportunities for both cost and revenue synergies. The 

cost synergies lie primarily in IT and in outsourcing some 
work to South Africa. The revenue opportunities lie in 
sharing product knowledge and ideas as well as what 
we know about building distribution channels.

Achieving our targets
To create shareholder value by rationing capital in an 
appropriate and sustainable way, we focus on four main 
areas. Each has associated measures to track performance, 
with targets clearly linked to management incentives:

 ■ Driving revenue growth
 ■ Reducing cost
 ■ Synergies
 ■ Capital efficiency.

Customer services and administration
Each LTS regional organisation currently has its own 
administration and IT structure, but these share many 
common products, processes, IT platforms and customer/
intermediary interfaces. In line with our aim of putting the 
customer at the heart of everything we do, we have decided 
to operate customer service and administration across LTS 
in a more integrated manner in future. In December 2011 
we announced that Rose Keanly had been appointed 
Director LTS Customer Services and Administration, with 
responsibility for customer service and administration in 
South Africa and all other LTS businesses. 

Her immediate priorities are:

 ■ Improving customers’ service experience across the 

lifetime of their relationships with LTS

 ■ Driving down unit costs
 ■ Reducing operational risks
 ■ Enabling faster entry into new markets, and launch of 

new products into existing markets, by maximising re-use
 ■ Leveraging our South African capability and other areas 

of expertise more actively across the whole of LTS.

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Front office of LTS IT focuses on local business to improve competitive advantage

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As our customers and their advisers conduct more of their 
research and activity online, our IT services need to be 
highly responsive, cost-effective, and well governed without 
sacrificing the speed-to-market and innovation needed in 
our local markets.

Richard Boynett, LTS Chief Information Officer (CIO), is now 
into the second year of a programme to enable business 
efficiency and innovation for both local and international 
competitive advantage. 

His change and consolidation agenda has exceeded 
expectations and the following changes have 
been implemented:

 ■ 18 IT departments have been consolidated into a 

cross-business unit IT function

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structure, while remaining fully accountable for IT 
services into their locally regulated entities

 ■ IT governance has improved sharply, with £300 million 
of annual spend under centralised control, audit items 
reduced by 80% and a formal policy in place across  
all LTS business units.

This base, established early in 2011, has allowed us to:

 ■ Reduce annual IT costs by £15 million in 2011 

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savings the previous year)

To underpin these priorities we will continue to exploit 
the LEAN philosophy and practices that have been key to 
transforming the South African service and administration 
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our project to move processes and IT from Germany, 
Poland and Austria to South Africa, giving us a capability 
that we can exploit further.

Strategic marketing and brand
In December 2011 we announced the creation of a new 
centralised LTS strategic marketing team, headed by 
Carlton Hood, who joins the LTS Executive Committee. 

The strategic marketing function will be responsible for 
co-ordinating five key initiatives across LTS, which together 
make up the core of our customer strategy:

 ■ LTS strategy – continued development of our business 
strategy based on customers and core competencies
 ■ Customer culture and experience – increased focus 
on improving our customer experience and creating a 
culture focused on serving customers better

 ■ Marketing, brand and insight – a single brand strategy 
for the Group and a shared customer insight capability 
and best practice in our marketing disciplines

 ■ Project Connect – shared approach, infrastructure and 
capability for our e-commerce proposition across LTS
 ■ Customer relationship management (CRM) – shared 
approach, infrastructure and capability to leverage our 
CRM capabilities across LTS.

While existing business unit teams have many of the 
resources and capabilities that we need to deliver these 
projects, a team at the LTS level will support and  
co-ordinate efforts across LTS. 

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 ■ Move from adversarial IT outsource contracts with poor 

 ■ Ensuring we are relentlessly driving innovation, 

service level agreements to a mutually-beneficial 
partnership model – first with Dimension Data and 
Vodacom for our network and communication services 
in South Africa, and more recently with the renewal of 
our relationship and infrastructure services outsource 
contract with T-Systems

 ■ Create the underlying international technology 

infrastructure that all our local operations now use  
to work, collaborate and share information, products 
and platforms

 ■ Deliver an ambitious portfolio of business investment 

projects in local markets while maintaining international 
alignment.

In 2012 we are continuing to transform IT into a world-class 
function. Our priority areas are:

 ■ Reducing annual IT costs by further material amounts 
 ■ Deploying the hybrid local/international operating model 
into our development centres, and reconfiguring them 
into centres of excellence to support directly the quality 
of customer experience

 ■ Finalising the partnership model across our 

international infrastructure to improve employee 
productivity and remove any remaining technology 
barriers between countries

 ■ Further leveraging South Africa as our IT hub, sharing 
expertise and systems across LTS to enable rapid 
market entry and online capabilities.

This ambitious IT strategy will have transformed our IT 
cost base and effectiveness to world-class standards 
within 24 months, leaving LTS and the Group in a solid 
position to exploit the potential of technology to help us 
be our customers’ most trusted partner.

Product and proposition
In October 2011, Bryce Johns re-joined the Group to lead 
product capability across LTS. He took over this role from 
Steven Levin, who was appointed CEO of Skandia 
International in 2011. Bryce is a member of the LTS 
Executive Committee, with the following key focus areas:

 ■ Supporting the product front line in Wealth Management 

as we expand the range of customer solutions to 
include insurance, retirement income and downside 
protection products

 ■ Leading the product risk management function to 

ensure ongoing pricing and asset liability management 
rigour, improved economic capital efficiency in product 
design, and better leverage of our global balance sheet 
to local advantage

connectivity and more integrated planning across 
the LTS product and proposition community. We 
are aiming for a global talent pool which is able to 
leverage its scale, mobility and international mindset 
for local advantage

 ■ Ensuring that we are building our delivery capacity 
across line functions with a view to more effectively 
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In October 2011, we announced the appointment of Paul 
Feeney as CEO of LTS Asset Management. 

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LTS is a key component of our strategy to deliver the best 
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businesses in Skandia Investment Group and Old Mutual 
Investment Group South Africa. He will provide a consistent 
focus on solid investment performance, the right asset 
management solutions for customers, and close co-
ordination with LTS marketing and distribution. He will build 
our capabilities in Europe and leverage Old Mutual Asset 
Management’s capabilities in co-ordination with the Group’s 
US Asset Management business. 

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Review of 2011 results
On a reported basis the Emerging Markets business accounts for: 72% of the LTS IFRS AOP earnings, 46% of LTS FUM, 
43% of LTS APE sales; 63% of LTS operating MCEV earnings (covered business, post-tax); and 55% of LTS MCEV per 
share (covered business).

The analysis below is presented on a constant currency basis.

Continued operational delivery despite difficult markets
Key performance statistics:

2011

AOP (IFRS basis, pre-tax)
NCCF (£bn)
FUM (£bn)
Life assurance sales (APE)
PVNBP
Non-covered sales2
Value of new business
Operating MCEV earnings (covered business, post-tax)
Adjusted MCEV per share (covered business)
Return on embedded value4
(VNB + experience variance)/MCEV (covered business)4

2010 (constant currency)3

AOP (IFRS basis, pre-tax)
NCCF (£bn)
FUM (£bn)
Life assurance sales (APE)
PVNBP
Non-covered sales2
Value of new business
Operating MCEV earnings (covered business, post-tax)
Adjusted MCEV per share (covered business)
Return on embedded value4
(VNB + experience variance)/MCEV (covered business)4

2010 (as reported)3

AOP (IFRS basis, pre-tax)
NCCF (£bn)
FUM (£bn)
Life assurance sales (APE)
PVNBP
Non-covered sales2
Value of new business
Operating MCEV earnings (covered business, post-tax)
Adjusted MCEV per share (covered business)
Return on embedded value4
(VNB + experience variance)/MCEV (covered business)4

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Markets

Wealth
Management 

Retail
Europe

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0.4
49.9
524
3,2951
8,147
991
349
56.9p
11.9% 1
6.8% 1

179
2.5
54.4
611
5,269
4,669
70
184
35.2p
9.3%
5.0%

Emerging
Markets

Wealth
Management

524
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473
3,175 1
6,762
831
333
49.7p1
13.2% 1
4.7% 1

197
3.9
55.9
734
6,380
4,507
66
112
36.2p
6.1%
3.1%

Emerging
Markets

Wealth 
Management

539
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57.0
487
3,2691
6,962
861
344
60.7p1
13.2% 1
4.7%1

197
3.9
55.9
734
6,380
4,507
66
112
36.2p
6.1%
3.1%

44
0.3
4.2
72
549
20
8
19
10.6p
3.0%
1.1%

Retail
Europe

51
0.4
4.8
70
519
23
7
67
11.1p
12.8%
2.2%

Retail
Europe

51
0.4
5.0
69
513
23
7
66
11.4p
12.8%
2.2%

£m

Total

793
3.2
108.5
1,207
9,113
12,836
177
552
102.7p
9.3%
5.2%

£m

Total

772
4.3
107.3
1,277
10,074
11,292
156
512
97.0p
10.8%
3.9%

£m

Total

787
4.3
117.9
1,290
10,162
11,492
159
522
108.3p
10.8%
3.9%

1.  PVNBP and value of new business excluded Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi and Swaziland (the other African countries) in 2011 and 2010. The other 
African countries were excluded from Adjusted MCEV per share in 2010. Return on embedded value and (VNB + experience variance)/MCEV 
metrics for 2011 and 2010 excluded the other African countries from opening MCEV when calculated. 

2. Includes unit trust/mutual fund sales.
3. The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued.
4.  Return on embedded value and (VNB + experience variance)/MCEV (covered business) were calculated in local currency, except for LTS where 

they were calculated on a reporting currency basis.

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IFRS AOP results
Overall LTS AOP increased 3% to £793 million.

Emerging Markets improved by 9% to £570 million, with 
strong profit growth in Retail Affluent and Mass Foundation 
Cluster (MFC). The consolidation of Zimbabwe, Kenya, 
Malawi and Swaziland for the first time increased AOP  
by £24 million.

Wealth Management decreased by £18 million to £179 
million, with 2010 benefiting from policyholder tax prior 
year smoothing of £76 million compared to £32 million 
in 2011. Excluding the impact of prior year policyholder 
tax smoothing, underlying AOP grew by 21%, driven by 
higher average FUM balances and reduced absolute 
levels of expenses. 

Retail Europe was down £7 million, impacted by non-
recurring costs associated with the transfer of some 
of the business operations to South Africa and higher 
commissions reflecting increased new business in 
Poland and Switzerland.

Net client cash flow
Overall LTS NCCF decreased by £1.1 billion to £3.2 billion. 
H2 flows were below H1, reflecting worsening investor 
sentiment in Europe.

Emerging Markets increased to £0.4 billion, with 
strong inflows in MFC and Retail Affluent and a large 
transaction in Colombia. OMIGSA benefited from lower 
PIC outflows and there were improved flows across a 
number of its boutiques.

Wealth Management decreased by £1.4 billion, with 
reduced inflows from Continental Europe following the end 
of the Italian tax shield that generated a sales boost in 2010. 
UK Platform NCCF was £3.3 billion (2010: £3.6 billion), with 
continued strong positive contributions from both covered 
and non-covered business.

Retail Europe saw a decrease of £0.1 billion as improved 
persistency was offset by higher surrender values.

Funds under management
Overall LTS FUM at 31 December 2011 was up 1% to 
£108.5 billion.

Emerging Markets increased by 7% to £49.9 billion, due 
mainly to consolidation of the other African countries for the 
first time. Some 85% of total Emerging Markets FUM is in 
South Africa. 

Wealth Management was down 3% to £54.4 billion despite 
strong NCCF, with markets lower than at 31 December 
2010. FUM included UK assets of £33.4 billion (2010: £33.9 
billion). Of the UK assets, UK Platform assets totalled £18.8 
billion, a 13% rise from the 31 December 2010 level, further 
solidifying Wealth Management’s position as one of the 
largest participants in this market. As of 29 February 2012, 
UK Platform assets were £20.1 billion.

Retail Europe closed slightly below 31 December 2010. 
Decreases in the market value of investments were partially 
offset by net client cash inflows.

Life sales summary
Overall LTS APE sales decreased by 6% to £1,207 million.

In Emerging Markets, South African regular premium sales 
grew by 14%. Continued momentum in MFC sales delivered 
excellent growth of 28%. Retail Affluent sales increased by 
4%, with more advisers, improved sales productivity and 
focused initiatives for the Greenlight protection product.

South African single premium sales decreased by 10%, 
with lower sales in Retail Affluent and OMIGSA. Retail 
Affluent sales were muted as management focused on 
product mix and completing training for the regulatory 
exams; sales volumes in 2010 were exceptional due to 
competitive Fixed Bond pricing. OMIGSA sales declined by 
32% due to clients delaying investment decisions and some 
sales are now being reported as Corporate business.

Rest of Africa sales more than doubled, with strong 
Namibian sales. The consolidation of the other African 
countries for the first time increased APE sales by 
£17 million.

Sales in Asia & Latin America increased by 9%, benefiting 
from an increase in financial planner numbers and improved 
productivity in Mexico.

Sales at Emerging Markets’ Chinese joint venture,  
Old Mutual-Guodian, increased by 77% due to strong 
regular premium sales and continued growth in 
telemarketing sales.

Wealth Management continued to grow its single premium 
business on the UK Platform. Platform sales totalled 
£244 million of the £312 million total UK sales.

Sales in the UK Legacy market were £68 million, a decrease 
of £45 million reflecting the managed reduction in its 
product range available in 2011.

In the offshore International market, sales decreased by 
8% to £208 million as Wealth Management reduced 
lower margin regular premium business across its 
International markets.

Sales in Wealth Management’s Continental Europe 
business decreased by 43% to £91 million, reflecting 
worsening investor sentiment in H2 2011 and the ending  
of the one-off tax shield in Italy in 2010. 

Retail Europe sales increased by 4% to £72 million, driven  
by increased regular premiums in the Polish business, 
which benefited from additional sales from new distribution 
partners in the IFA and bank channels.

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Operating MCEV earnings
Overall LTS operating MCEV earnings increased by 8%  
to £552 million.

In Emerging Markets operating MCEV earnings (post-tax) 
increased by 5% to £349 million. Operating experience 
variances increased due to improved persistency and 
mortality experience, partially offset by expense assumption 
changes and increased central provisions for project costs. 
Adjusted MCEV per share was up 14% to 56.9p, benefiting 
from a large positive impact from the replacement of STC 
with Dividends Tax and a positive impact from economic 
variances. Return on embedded value (RoEV) reduced 
from 13.2% to 11.9%, reflecting the significant uplift in 
MCEV during 2010.

In Wealth Management MCEV operating earnings post-
tax increased by £72 million to £184 million for the period, 
driven by improved new business value, positive experience 
variances and a number of net positive assumption 
changes. Adjusted MCEV per share decreased to 35.2p 
(2010: 36.2p), with strong MCEV earnings more than offset 
by high capital and dividend flows to Group and negative 
economic variances. RoEV increased from 6.1% to 9.3% 
due to increased MCEV operating earnings.

In Retail Europe operating MCEV earnings after tax 
decreased to £19 million. On a comparable basis MCEV 
earnings after tax were in line with 2010, which benefited 
from positive assumption changes for rebates and 
persistency in 2010. MCEV per share was down 0.5p to 
10.6p, due to economic variances, foreign exchange and 
dividend flows. RoEV decreased to 3.0%, with increased 
opening MCEV and decreased operating MCEV earnings.

We are structuring the 
business around 
customer segments.

Non-covered sales, including unit trust and 
mutual fund sales
Overall LTS non-covered sales were up 14% to 
£12,836 million.

In Emerging Markets there was strong sales growth in 
Colombian voluntary and mandatory pension sales, 
including a large public sector transaction concluded in 
the third quarter. There was strong growth in new client 
business in Acsis and OMIGSA in South Africa and the 
inclusion of deposits at CABS in Zimbabwe in 2011.

In Wealth Management, UK mutual fund sales grew 
strongly – up 10%. As in the prior year, Wealth Management 
benefited from the seasonality of the tax year end along with 
increased ISA allowances. International unit trust sales were 
down as market volatility impacted customer sentiment.

Margins and value of new business
Across LTS as a whole, new business APE margins 
improved to 15% (2010: 13%) and present value of new 
business premiums (PVNBP) margin improved to 1.9% 
(2010: 1.6%). The bulk of the improvement was in Wealth 
Management. Value of new business (VNB) increased  
by 13% to £177 million, driven by a combination of 
increased sales volumes and new business margins 
in Emerging Markets.

APE margins improved from 18% to 20% in Emerging 
Markets, mainly as a result of improved persistency rates, 
favourable changes in economic assumptions, an improved 
product mix and the positive impact of the new Dividends 
Tax replacing the current Secondary Tax on Companies 
(STC). Improved product mix and expense control in Retail 
Affluent in H2 lifted margins from 3% in H1 to 10% for the 
full year. Corporate margins reduced in 2011, mainly due to 
a change in product mix and a reduction in sales volumes. 
The value of new business in Emerging Markets increased 
by 19% to £99 million, with increased sales volumes and 
improved new business margins.

The increase in margins in Wealth Management was driven 
largely by a more beneficial product mix in International with 
increased focus on higher-margin portfolio bond products 
and lower acquisition costs. The International APE margin 
improved to 23% (2010: 19%). The value of new business in 
Wealth Management increased by £4 million to £70 million 
and the APE margin and PVNBP margin increased to 11% 
(2010: 9%) and 1.3% (2010: 1.0%) respectively.

In Retail Europe the value of new business and APE margin 
were in line with 2010.

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The European government debt crisis diminished investor 
confidence, particularly in Q4 of 2011, reducing European 
investment market demand in the short-term. There was  
a particularly strong impact in the weaker European 
economies such as Italy. However, we expect steady 
progress for 2012 as a whole.

Our early and decisive management action in the UK 
positioned us well to deal with the impending changes to 
the industry brought about by the Retail Distribution Review 
(RDR). With the potential ban on cash rebates and the 
development in operating margins for legacy businesses 
we believe our plan for a fully unbundled charging structure, 
under which we will pass on rebates to customers, will give 
us an advantage over our peers. We are actively developing 
new protection and asset management products in 
anticipation of the new market structures. We are also 
testing new forms of interaction with customers that help 
their advisers provide services more efficiently.

Total gross sales on the UK Platform were £4.9 billion 
(2010: £4.9 billion), reflecting challenging markets especially 
in Q4. However, we believe our share of the Platform market 
continued to grow over the period. Taxation uncertainty and 
regulatory delays may impede our ability to act as swiftly as 
we wish, but we are confident that reform will be 
implemented in line with our expectations. UK sales growth 
may be constrained in 2012 by the lead-up to the RDR 
announcement and resulting investor uncertainty.

We anticipate the completion of the sale of our Finnish 
business in mid-2012. Post-tax profits for the business  
were approximately £12 million and were included in 
Wealth Management for 2011.

Value creation
A key metric by which we judge the performance of the 
business is Group value creation for the LTS covered 
business. It measures the contribution to RoEV from 
management actions of writing profitable new business 
and managing expenses, persistency, risk and other 
experience compared to what had been assumed. This 
metric improved from 3.9% to 5.2% in LTS (excluding 
Nordic), driven by strong sales of high margin protection 
products in Emerging Markets’ MFC and favourable 
persistency and rebate experience in Wealth Management.

Outlook
In January 2012, we announced that we planned to bring 
together Wealth Management’s Continental Europe 
business (France, Italy) and Retail Europe (Germany, 
Austria, Poland, Switzerland) to form one new business: 
Wealth Management Europe. The combined business 
brings together 736,000 customers across Europe and  
over €11 billion of FUM. Wealth Management Europe will 
be reported under the Wealth Management business 
unit in future.

We will proceed with the integration of the Retail Europe 
business during 2012. The product portfolio and customer 
service offering will be improved and organisational 
structures amended accordingly.

Job creation in South Africa, particularly in the public  
sector, is likely to see good growth in the medium term, 
underpinned by the Government’s planned 
infrastructure spending.

In South Africa we anticipate that the full potential impacts 
of the FAIS regulatory exams will only emerge in 2012 and 
2013. We have implemented extensive training plans and 
other measures to help our representatives pass the exams 
ahead of the revised 30 June 2012 deadline.

Together with other companies in the Group, Emerging 
Markets will continue actively to explore means for organic 
and inorganic growth in Africa. We are well positioned to 
grow into the rest of Africa by leveraging our established 
business bases in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. 
Using our expertise in these businesses we are able to 
design and export relevant products and low-cost IT 
infrastructure into new markets.

Our distribution capacity and use of technology to increase 
customer reach and reduce costs will accelerate in 2012.  
In particular we expect continued growth in our tied agency 
operations, with growth in the number of advisers and 
productivity. Higher new business standards will be the 
additional drivers of expected premium growth and the 
quality of new business.

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Key financial highlights

Return on equity (excl. goodwill) 
(%)

Net interest margin 
(%)

2011

2010

15.3

2011

13.4

2010

Net interest income 
(£m)

Credit loss ratio 
(%)

2011

2010

1,549

2011

1,468

2010

Non-interest revenue 
(£m)

2011

2010

Our brand

Core tier 1 ratio 
(%)

1,324

2011

1,168

2010

4

3.46

3.35

1.14

1.36

11.0

10.1

Nedbank is one of the four 
largest banking groups in 
South Africa measured by 
assets, with a strong deposit 
and wholesale banking 
franchise. 

Adjusted operating profit 
(pre-tax and minorities)

£755m

2010: £601m

Total Assets

£51.4bn

2010: £58.9bn

Number of employees

28,494

2010: 27,525

Banking

 Mike Brown
Chief Executive, Nedbank

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Nedbank is focused on entrenching and integrating 
economic, environmental, social and cultural sustainability 
across its businesses. Well acknowledged for its 
sustainability leadership as South Africa’s ‘green bank’, 
Nedbank is the first and only carbon-neutral financial 
services organisation in Africa and continues to play a 
leadership role in environmental issues through participation 
in Conference of the Parties 17 (COP17), maintaining 
carbon neutrality, leading in water stewardship and being 
a signatory to the CEO Water Mandate of the United 
Nations Global Compact. 

Nedbank is headquartered in Sandton, Johannesburg,  
with large operational centres in Durban and Cape Town,  
a regional branch network throughout South Africa and 
facilities in other southern African countries. These 
facilities are operated through Nedbank’s eight affiliated 
banks and subsidiaries, as well as through branches 
and representative offices in certain key global financial 
centres that meet the international banking requirements 
of Nedbank’s South African multinational clients.

Overview 
Nedbank is listed on the JSE Limited in South Africa as well 
as on the Namibian Stock Exchange, with a market 
capitalisation of £5.9 billion at the end of 2011. Old Mutual 
has a majority shareholding and owned 51.6%  
of Nedbank at 31 December 2011.

Nedbank is positioned as a bank for all and provides a  
wide range of wholesale and retail banking services and  
a growing insurance, asset management and wealth 
management offering through five main business clusters; 
Nedbank Capital, Nedbank Corporate, Nedbank Business 
Banking, Nedbank Retail and Nedbank Wealth. 

Focused on southern Africa, Nedbank’s vision is to 
build Africa’s most admired bank by its staff, clients, 
shareholders, regulators and communities. Nedbank’s 
key strategic areas for growth include the repositioning of 
Nedbank Retail, growing non-interest revenue and 
implementing the portfolio tilt strategy. In the rest of Africa 
Nedbank has recently deepened its strategic alliance 
with Ecobank by providing finance for a transformational 
banking acquisition in Nigeria and, in so doing, secured 
rights to acquire up to 20% of Ecobank Transnational Inc. 
within two to three years.

Percentage of 2011 Headline Earnings 
from operating units

■ Nedbank Capital 
19%
■
■ Nedbank Corporate 
26%
■ Nedbank Business Banking 13%
■ Nedbank Retail 
32%
■ Nedbank Wealth 
10%

Find further details of the operational  
results of the business within the  
Financial Disclosure Supplements on: 
www.oldmutual.com/ir/

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Business profile

Nedbank Capital

Nedbank Corporate

Nedbank Business 
Banking

Nedbank Retail

Nedbank Capital provides 
comprehensive investment banking 
solutions to institutional and corporate 
clients. Its product strengths include: 
investment banking, leverage financing, 
trading, broking, structuring and 
hedging. It has offices in South Africa 
and London and representative offices 
in Angola and Toronto.

Nedbank Corporate provides full-service 
corporate banking to large corporates 
with an annual turnover over R400 
million, including commercial, industrial 
and property finance solutions.

It includes operations which service 
both retail and corporate market 
segments in Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, 
Swaziland and Zimbabwe through 
Nedbank Africa.

Nedbank Business Banking provides 
commercial banking solutions to 
small- to medium-sized businesses with 
an annual turnover between R7.5 million 
and R400 million.

The cluster comprises:
 ■ Investment Banking
 ■ Global Markets
 ■ Treasury 
 ■ Client Coverage.

The cluster comprises:
 ■ Corporate Banking
 ■ Property Finance 
 ■ Transactional Banking 
 ■ Nedbank Africa 
 ■ Nedbank Investor Services 
 ■ Corporate Shared Services.

The cluster comprises:
 ■ Four geographically decentralised client-facing business units
 ■ A strategic business unit, including specialised finance, debtor 

management and client value propositions

 ■ Specialist services, including investment management, 

transactional banking sales, finance and business intelligence/
client value management and specialist functional areas of HR, 
finance and risk.

Nedbank Retail serves the financial 
needs of individuals and small 
businesses with an annual turnover up 
to R7.5 million. It provides transactional, 
card, lending and investment products 
and services. The Nedbank Retail 
Cluster also services merchants and 
large corporates in respect of card-
acquiring services.

The cluster comprises:
 ■ Secured lending, including home loans and vehicle finance
 ■ Retail relationship banking, which combines personal 

relationship banking and small business services

 ■ Consumer banking, which comprises client engagement (client 

insight, value management, CVPs, digital innovation, 
transactional and investments), integrated channels and 
personal loans

 ■ Card issuing and acquiring.

Nedbank Wealth

Nedbank Wealth comprises three 
divisions – Insurance, Asset 
Management and Wealth Management 
– with offices in South Africa, London, 
the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and 
the Middle East.

The cluster comprises:
 ■ Wealth Management, which includes private banking and 
fiduciary services locally and internationally, as well as 
stockbroking and financial planning

 ■ Asset Management, which includes the Nedgroup Investments  
range of local and international Best of Breed unit trusts, cash  
solutions and multi-management as well as private client active 
management and research supporting high-net-worth clients 
and stockbroking businesses

 ■ Insurance, which includes short-term insurance.

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Well positioned to build on the momentum from 2011

Highlights

AOP (IFRS basis, pre-tax)
AOP (IFRS basis, pre-tax) (£m)
Headline earnings*
Net interest income*
Non-interest revenue*
Net interest margin*
Credit loss ratio*
Cost to income ratio*
Return on equity*
Return on equity (excluding goodwill)*
Core tier 1 ratio*

* As reported by Nedbank in its report to shareholders for the year ended 31 December 2011.

2011

8,791
755
6,184
18,034
15,412
3.46%
1.14%
56.6%
13.6%
15.3%
11.0%

Rm

2010

% change

29%
26%
26%
9%
17%

6,799
601
4,900
16,608
13,215
3.35%
1.36%
55.7%
11.8%
13.4%
10.1%

The full text of Nedbank’s results for the year ended 
31 December 2011, released on 29 February 2012, can  
be accessed on our website http://www.oldmutual.com/
mediacentre/pressReleases/viewPressRelease.
jsp?pressItem_id=16311. The following is an edited extract:

Banking and economic environment 
The global economic environment deteriorated in 2011 as 
the European sovereign debt crisis continued to unfold, 
leading to a loss of economic growth momentum in both 
developed and emerging markets. 

For South Africa GDP growth is expected to end at 3.2%  
for the 2011 year and interest rates remained unchanged  
at 37-year lows. 

Household demand for credit remained stable and 
transactional demand continued to strengthen, 
supported by real wage increases.

Business confidence remained at low levels for most of 
2011, with corporate credit demand gaining some traction 
towards the end of the year as both private and public 
sector fixed-investment activity increased off a low base. 

Review of 2011 results
Nedbank performed well for the year ended 31 
December 2011, reflecting the benefits of disciplined 
execution of its business plans and excellent progress 
with key strategic initiatives.

Nedbank recorded strong headline earnings growth of 
26.2% to R6,184 million for the year (2010: R4,900 million), 
driven primarily by 16.6% growth in NIR, net interest margin 
(NIM) expansion and continued improvement in the 
Nedbank Retail credit loss ratio.

Diluted headline earnings per share increased 25.4% to 
1,340 cents (2010: 1,069 cents) and diluted earnings per 
share 27.7% to 1,341 cents (2010: 1,050 cents) in line with 
Nedbank’s trading statement issued on 6 February 2012.

Return on average ordinary shareholders’ equity (RoE), 
excluding goodwill, increased to 15.3% (2010: 13.4%)  
and RoE to 13.6% (2010: 11.8%), with the benefit of 
return on assets (RoA) improving to 0.99% (2010: 0.82%),  
partially offset by a reduction in gearing. Nedbank 
generated economic profit (EP) of R924 million (2010: 
economic loss of R289 million).

Nedbank is well capitalised, with the core tier 1 capital  
ratio at 11.0% (2010: 10.1%). Funding and liquidity levels 
remain sound. Liquidity buffers increased R18.0 billion  
to R24.0 billion and the long-term funding ratio increased  
to Nedbank’s target level of 25.0%.

Net asset value per share continued to increase,  
growing by 9.4% to 10,753 cents at 31 December 2011 
(2010: 9,831 cents).

During 2011 Nedbank continued to deliver on its  
vision of building Africa’s most admired bank and its  
commitments to all stakeholders. Highlights for the  
key stakeholders include:

 ■ For staff: creating 969 additional job opportunities, 
investing R303 million in leadership development 
programmes and continuing the positive shift in 
corporate culture

 ■ For clients: paying out R116 billion in new loans; 
expanding the range of distinctive client-centred 
offerings; launching various new product innovations; 
keeping fee increases at or below inflation, with average 
retail banking fees remaining at levels similar to those in 
2005; increasing footprint by 121 new staffed outlets 
and 389 ATMs; further extending banking hours in 59 
branches and Sunday banking in 49 branches and, 
through restructures, having kept 13,900 families in 
their homes since 2009.

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 ■ For shareholders: generating a 15.3% total shareholder 

return, delivering R924 million EP, declaring a total 
dividend up 26.0% as well as winning numerous 
reporting awards and the Financial Times and Banker 
magazine’s Bank of the Year in South Africa for 2011
 ■ For regulators: increasing capital levels and remaining 

well positioned for Basel III and the Solvency 
Assessment and Management regime; being one  
of the first South African banks to receive South African 
Reserve Bank (SARB) approval for using the advanced 
approaches for all three applicable risk types, and 
making cash contributions of R5.1 billion relating to 
direct, indirect and other taxation

 ■ For communities: making banking more accessible  

for the entry-level market and remote rural communities 
with initiatives such as Vodacom m-pesa; extending 
R1.8 billion in loans to black small to medium 
enterprises with a turnover of up to R35 million; 
assisting over 934 entrepreneurs under skills 
development programmes, including the emerging 
agriculture sector; contributing R78 million to social 
development; remaining a Department of Trade and 
Industry (DTI) level 2 contributor and increasing the DTI 
score to 95.2 from 89.5; spending R6.6 billion on local 
procurement and playing a leadership role in 
environmental sustainability through participation in 
COP17, maintaining our carbon neutrality, leading in 
water stewardship and being a signatory to the CEO 
Water Mandate of the United Nations Global Compact.

The good performance from the wholesale clusters was 
supported by excellent risk management, an increase in 
primary clients and higher usage of innovative transactional 
banking offerings. Nedbank Capital navigated well through 
difficult and volatile markets and ended the year with a 
small increase in its headline earnings. Nedbank Wealth 
performed well and its 2009 acquisitions continued to bear 
fruit, supporting its growth in earnings and embedded 
value, while the insurance and asset management 
businesses contributed strongly. 

The centre moved to a loss of R192 million primarily as a 
result of an additional amount of R200 million before tax 
that was raised as a portfolio impairment and a R111 million 
after-tax share-based payments charge for the Eyethu 
community share scheme.

Detailed segmental information is available on Nedbank’s 
website at www.nedbankgroup.co.za under the ‘Financial 
information’ section.

Financial performance
Net interest income
Net interest income (NII) grew 8.6% to R18,034 million 
(2010: R16,608 million), with NIM growing to 3.46% (2010: 
3.35%). Average interest-earning banking assets increased 
5.1% (2010 growth: 3.0%).

The increase in NIM reflects:

Cluster performance
The business clusters collectively reported an increased 
RoE of 18.6% (2010: 14.4%) and earnings growth of 30.8%.

 ■ Asset margin expansion on new advances from 
risk-adjusted pricing and a change in asset mix

 ■ The lower cost of term liquidity in 2011.

Nedbank Retail’s headline earnings growth and RoE 
improvement were achieved through excellent progress 
strategically and financially in repositioning the cluster. 
Delivering distinctive client-centred value propositions 
enabled strong new-client growth and markedly increased 
sales. As a result, the cluster’s NIR grew 17.3%, primarily 
driven by higher transactional and lending volumes. In 
addition, improved risk-based pricing, effective collections 
and rehabilitations resulted in reduced impairments, which 
contributed to the robust performance.

This was partially offset by: 

 ■ The impact of endowment, with average interest rates 

90 basis points lower than in 2010

 ■ The cost of enhancing Nedbank’s funding profile
 ■ The cost of carrying higher levels of lower-yielding liquid 
assets as Nedbank proactively positions itself for the 
likely implications of Basel III.

Headline earnings (Rm)

RoE (%)

2011

1,225
1,672
852
2,002
625

6,376
(192)

6,184

2010

1,202
1,496
825
760
592

4,875
25

4,900

% change

1.9
11.8
3.3
163.4
5.6

30.8

26.2

2011

23.0
25.0
23.1
11.8
38.7

18.6

13.6

2010

23.5
19.7
26.4
4.6
41.0

14.4

11.8

Nedbank Capital
Nedbank Corporate 
Nedbank Business Banking
Nedbank Retail
Nedbank Wealth

Operating units
Centre

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Credit loss ratio analysis

Specific impairments 
Portfolio impairments 

Total credit loss ratio

Credit loss ratio

Nedbank Capital
Nedbank Corporate 
Nedbank Business Banking
Nedbank Retail
Nedbank Wealth

Total

(%)

Dec 2011

H2 2011

H1 2011

Dec 2010

1.02
0.12

1.14

0.93
0.13

1.06

1.10
0.11

1.21

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Dec 2011

H2 2011

H1 2011

Dec 2010

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1.23
0.29
0.54
1.98
0.25

1.14

1.57
0.24
0.67
1.73
0.09

1.06

0.86
0.34
0.40
2.24
0.41

1.21

1.27
0.20
0.40
2.67
0.15

1.36

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0.20 – 0.35
0.55 – 0.75
1.50 – 2.20
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The credit loss ratio improved to 1.14% for the year 
(2010: 1.36%), while further strengthening the portfolio 
impairment provision.

The credit loss ratio relating to specific impairments 
improved substantially to 1.02% for the year (2010: 1.32%) 
as defaulted advances continued tracking downwards to 
R23,073 million (2010: R26,765 million).

Nedbank maintained a strong focus on credit risk 
management. The increased level of portfolio impairments 
includes R159 million relating to lengthened-emergence-
period assumptions and R200 million in the centre for 
unknown events that may have already occurred, but 
which will only be evident in the future.

Nedbank Retail’s credit loss ratio of 1.98% (2010: 2.67%)  
is now within the cluster’s through-the-cycle target range  
of 1.50% to 2.20%. Nedbank Capital’s credit loss ratio 
remained elevated at levels similar to those of 2010 mainly 
due to impairment charges on increased non-performing 
loans. Credit loss ratios in Nedbank Corporate, Nedbank 
Business Banking and Nedbank Wealth remained within  
or better than the respective clusters’ through-the-cycle 
target ranges.

Non-interest revenue
The momentum in non-interest revenue (NIR) continued in 
the second half of 2011, resulting in strong growth of 16.6% 
to R15,412 million (2010: R13,215 million) and the ratio of 
NIR-to-expenses increasing to 81.5% (2010: 79.6%).

The continued trend of growth in commission and fee 
income, which was up 16.2% to R11,335 million (2010: 
R9,758 million), arose from further primary-client gains, 
robust transaction volumes and a good uptake of new 
products, particularly in Nedbank Retail, as well as from 
increased volumes in electronic channels in the rest 
of Nedbank.

Insurance income grew strongly at 22.4%, achieved 
through insurance sales into the MFC, personal 
loans and card businesses, as well as an improved 
underwriting performance.

Trading income increased by 3.4% to R2,168 million 
(2010: R2,096 million) in difficult markets. Private equity 
income increased by 41.7% to R323 million (2010: R228 
million), mainly from improved realisations and dividends 
received in the Nedbank Capital and Nedbank Corporate 
private equity investment portfolios.

NIR was negatively impacted by a R49 million loss  
(2010: R213 million loss) over the year due to fair value   
adjustments of Nedbank’s subordinated debt and 
associated hedges resulting from the strengthening  
of Nedbank’s credit spreads. 

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Expenses
Nedbank continued to manage core expenses while 
investing for growth, resulting in an ongoing improvement  
in the NIR-to-expenses ratio. Expenses increased 14.0%  
to R18,919 million (2010: R16,598 million), comprising 
expense growth of 8.0% relating to ‘business-as-usual’ 
activities, 3.0% relating to investing for growth initiatives 
and 3.0% relating to variable compensation. 

Overall the main drivers of expense growth were:

 ■ Remuneration costs increasing 12.5%, driven by 3.4% 

headcount growth and inflation-related annual increases 
of 6.5%

 ■ Short-term incentive costs increasing 35.8% on the 
back of strong headline earnings and EP growth
 ■ Long-term incentive costs increasing R140 million to 
R262 million, as 2010 contained a reversal of costs 
when associated corporate performance targets 
were not met

 ■ Volume-driven costs, such as fees and computer 
processing costs, continuing to grow in support of 
revenue-generating business activities

 ■ Investing for growth initiatives taking place across 
the clusters, which included the repositioning of 
Nedbank Retail that entailed footprint roll-out, 
headcount growth in frontline and collections 
staff, and system enhancements.

The efficiency ratio increased to 56.6% (2010: 55.7%), 
reflecting the negative endowment impact of lower interest 
rates on NII, compounded by slower growth in interest-
earning banking assets and the strategy of investing  
for growth.

Nedbank’s compound NIR growth of 10.2% since 2007 
continues to exceed its related compound expense  
growth of 8.8%.

Taxation
The tax charge increased 60.6% to R2,194 million (2010: 
R1,366 million), with the effective tax rate increasing to a 
more normalised 25.2% (2010: 20.7%). The increase 
resulted from: 

 ■ The 31.9% growth in income before tax
 ■ A lower proportion of dividend income relative to total 

income than in 2010

 ■ Secondary tax on companies (STC) savings in the first 
six months of 2010 due to the take-up of the scrip 
dividend (81.5%) offered in that period

 ■ The reversal of certain tax provisions in 2010.

Statement of financial position
Capital
Nedbank’s capital adequacy ratios remain well above its 
internal targets in preparation for Basel III and continue to 
be strengthened as a result of ongoing risk and capital 
optimisation, strong growth in organic earnings and a 
strategic focus on managing for value and portfolio tilt.

Given the predominant focus on the core tier 1 ratio under 
Basel III and considering Nedbank’s strong total capital 
adequacy ratio, it elected to call the Nedbank Limited tier 2 
bond (Ned 5) amounting to R1.5 billion in April 2011 without 
replacing it.

Further detail on capital and risk management will 
be available in Nedbank’s Pillar 3 Report to be 
published in April 2012 on Nedbank’s website at  
www.nedbankgroup.co.za.

Risk methodologies and capital allocation
In 2011 Nedbank Limited received approval from the 
SARB to use, for regulatory capital purposes, the Internal 
Model Approach for market trading risk. Nedbank Limited 
now has approval for the advanced approaches in respect 
of all three of the major Pillar 1 risk approaches under 
Basel II, having received approval for using the Advanced 
Measurement Approach for operational risk, effective 
from 2010, and to use the Advanced Internal Ratings-based 
Approach for credit risk from the implementation date of 
Basel II in 2008. This makes Nedbank Limited one of the 
first South African banks to operate under all three 
advanced risk assessment approaches.

Further enhancements to the internal capital allocation to 
business clusters occurred in 2011 to support the closer 
alignment of Nedbank Group and cluster RoEs. These 
enhancements have no impact on Nedbank’s overall capital 
levels and RoE, but have impacted the RoEs recorded by 
the business clusters. This is an ongoing process born out 
of evolving regulatory developments such as Basel III. 

2011

2010

Internal target 
range

Regulatory 
minimum

(%)

11.0
12.6

15.3

10.1
11.7

15.0

7.5 to 9.0
8.5 to 10.0

11.5 to 13.0

5.25
7.00

9.75

Basel II
Core tier 1 ratio
Tier 1 ratio

Total capital ratio

(Ratios calculated include unappropriated profits)

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Loans and advances by cluster are as follows:

Banking activity
Trading activity

Nedbank Capital
Nedbank Corporate
Nedbank Business Banking
Nedbank Retail
Nedbank Wealth 
Other

Total

2011

48,558
19,952

68,510
164,754
58,272
183,663
19,625
1,224

496,048

Rm

2010

% change

42,650
19,678

62,328
157,703
50,765
187,334
16,869
274

475,273

13.9
1.4

9.9
4.5
14.8
(2.0)
16.3
>100.0

4.4

Basel III developments
The majority of the international Basel III proposals were 
finalised in December 2010, although some significant 
aspects remain to be completed this year. The details of 
how Basel III will be adopted in South Africa are expected  
to be determined by the SARB during 2012.

Nedbank expects the impact of the new capital 
requirements to be manageable. On a Basel III pro forma 
basis for 2011 Nedbank is in a position to absorb the  
Basel III capital implications, with all capital adequacy 
ratios remaining well above the upper end of current 
internal target ranges. These should improve further into 
2013 (the expected commencement date of Basel III 
implementation) from projected earnings, continuing 
capital and risk optimisation, and the impact of 
Nedbank’s strategic portfolio management.

Loans and advances
Loans and advances grew 4.4% to R496 billion (2010: R475 
billion), with growth increasing, particularly in the wholesale 
portfolios, during the fourth quarter.

Advances totalling R9 billion were transferred from Nedbank 
Retail to Nedbank Business Banking in 2011 to leverage its 
strong client and risk practices. On a like-for-like basis the 
growth in Nedbank Retail was 2.7%, while Nedbank 
Business Banking’s advances, excluding the full impact  
of the Imperial Bank transfer and other client moves, 
remained flat.

Deposits
Deposits increased 6.3% to R521 billion (2010: R490 billion) 
and Nedbank’s loan-to-deposit ratio strengthened to 95.2% 
(2010: 96.9%).

Once Basel III has been finalised in South Africa, Nedbank 
will review its current target capital ratios.

Two new liquidity ratios have been proposed under Basel III, 
being the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) for implementation 
in 2015 and the net stable funding ratio (NSFR) for 
implementation in 2018. The impact of compliance by the 
South African banking industry with, particularly, the NSFR 
would be punitive if implemented as it currently stands in 
the light of structural constraints within the South African 
financial market. This is the case for many jurisdictions 
around the world, and the negative effect on economic 
growth and employment would be significant. Nedbank 
anticipates that a pragmatic approach on this issue will be 
applied prior to implementation in 2018.

Optimising the mix of the deposit book remains a key 
focus in reducing the high cost of longer-term and 
professional funding. This is critical as banks compete 
more aggressively for lower-cost deposit pools with longer 
behavioural duration as they position their balance sheets 
in preparation for the Basel III liquidity ratios. Low interest 
rates, coupled with low domestic savings levels and the 
deleveraging of consumers, led to modest growth in retail 
deposits during 2011. Relatively higher deposit growth in 
commercial deposits indicated increasing working capital 
and available capacity among corporate clients. 

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Group strategic focus
Nedbank’s key strategic initiatives of repositioning Nedbank 
Retail, growing NIR, implementing the portfolio tilt strategy 
and expanding into the rest of Africa will continue to drive 
earnings growth.

Excellent progress was made in repositioning Nedbank 
Retail as a more client-centred and integrated business 
while maintaining the growth momentum of the product 
lines. Strong underlying business performance, growing the 
number and quality of primary clients, embedding effective 
risk management practices and strengthening balance 
sheet impairments while improving credit loss ratios, 
particularly in home loans, all contributed to Nedbank 
Retail’s headline earnings increasing by 163.4% and its  
RoE increasing from 4.6% in 2010 to 11.8%.

Nedbank’s NIR-to-expenses ratio target of 85% remains a 
key focus in the medium term. The objective is to achieve 
this target by continuing to deliver good quality annuity 
income through commission and fee growth from primary 
client gains, volume growth, new innovative products and 
cross-sell across clusters. Since 2009 Nedbank has added 
58 branches, 229 in-retailer kiosks and 719 ATMs, and 
has refurbished 79 branches, representing an investment 
of R514 million.

The Optimise to Invest programme, involving simplifying 
information technology systems and rationalising costs, will 
also benefit the NIR-to-expenses ratio in the medium term.

Nedbank’s portfolio tilt strategy continues to focus on 
strategically important EP-rich, lower-capital and liquidity-
consuming activities and at the same time drives the 
efficient allocation of the bank’s resources while positioning 
Nedbank strategically for Basel III. Insurance, asset 
management, transactional banking products, selected 
asset categories and deposits are important targeted areas 
for growth. In secured lending Nedbank continues to focus 
on profitable business that falls within Nedbank’s board-
approved risk appetite. 

In the short to medium term, Nedbank’s primary focus 
on South Africa and the five southern African countries 
in which it has a presence provides strong upside as it 
increases its EP share in the largest EP pool for financial 
services in Africa.

The deepening of the alliance with Ecobank through the 
granting of a $285 million loan facility and the subscription 
rights to acquire up to a 20% shareholding in Ecobank 
Transnational Inc. in two to three years creates a path to 
provide a significant benefit to clients in the rest of Africa 
in a prudent yet substantive manner and ultimately could 
provide shareholders with access to higher economic 
growth in the rest of Africa. 

Nedbank’s medium- to long-term targets remain unchanged and are included in the table below, with an 
outlook for performance against these targets for 2012:

Metric

2011 performance

Medium- to long-term targets

2012 outlook

RoE (excluding goodwill)

15.3%

Growth in diluted headline 
earnings per share

Credit loss ratio

25.4%

1.14%

NIR-to-expenses ratio

81.5%

Efficiency ratio

Core tier 1 capital adequacy 
ratio (Basel II)

Economic capital

56.6%

11.0%

5% above average cost of 
ordinary shareholders’ equity

Improving, remaining below 
target.

≥ consumer price index +  
GDP growth + 5%

Above the target level.

Between 0.6% and 1.0% of 
average banking advances

Improving into upper end  
of target.

> 85%

< 50.0%

7.5% to 9.0%

Improving, remaining below 
target.

Improving, remaining above 
target.

Strengthening, remaining 
above target.

Capitalised to 99.93% confidence interval on economic capital basis  
(target debt rating A, including 10% buffer)

Dividend cover policy 

2.26 times

2.25 to 2.75 times

2.25 to 2.75 times.

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Economic outlook
South Africa’s GDP is currently forecast to grow by 2.7% in 
2012, but remains dependent on international developments, 
particularly in Europe. 

There is potential for further uplift from any acceleration of 
the economic cycle, as Nedbank NIM should benefit from 
the positive effect of increased interest rates on endowment 
income, improved levels of advances growth and the 
prospect of lower credit loss ratios. 

These drivers, along with Nedbank’s operational and 
financial gearing, are likely to enable continued 
improvement in Nedbank’s RoA and RoE.

In the context of Nedbank’s 2012 forecast for GDP growth, 
inflation and interest rates in South Africa, Nedbank’s 
guidance for 2012 is as follows: 

 ■ Advances to grow at mid single digits
 ■ NIM to remain at levels similar to those in 2011 and  

to benefit from interest rate increases

 ■ The credit loss ratio to continue improving into the 

upper end of Nedbank’s through-the-cycle target range

 ■ NIR (excluding fair value adjustments) to grow at low 

double digits, maintaining Nedbank’s ongoing 
improvement in the NIR-to-expenses ratio

 ■ Expenses, including investing for growth, to increase  

by mid to upper single digits

 ■ Nedbank to maintain strong capital ratios and continue 
to strengthen funding and liquidity in preparation for 
Basel III.

Given that confidence is anticipated to remain fragile, 
private sector fixed-investment activity is expected to 
remain modest. However, government and public 
corporations are forecast to escalate their infrastructure 
spending, which should contribute to improved 
wholesale advances growth.

Consumer spending is anticipated to moderate as 
concerns about inflation, house prices and job security 
prevail. Transactional demand should remain robust, 
while credit demand is likely to improve slowly off a low 
base as consumer balance sheets strengthen and debt 
levels decline. 

Prospects
Nedbank is well set for continued growth in 2012,  
building on the earnings momentum created in 2011 
and the focus and success of the delivery on 
Nedbank’s strategic initiatives.

In an uncertain global environment Nedbank’s qualities are 
attractive and should support continued earnings growth. 
These qualities include:

 ■ Being one of the big four South African banks (South 

African banks were ranked second in the Soundness of 
Banks category in the World Economic Forum Global 
Competitiveness Survey) 

 ■ A strong, well-capitalised balance sheet with a prudent 

funding structure and sound liquidity 

 ■ A strong wholesale banking franchise returning 

high RoEs

 ■ A strengthened and growing retail franchise
 ■ A growing wealth business returning high RoEs
 ■ A demonstrated ability to manage costs 

judiciously over time

 ■ A growing primary-client base
 ■ Sound risk management practices
 ■ A stable and experienced management team
 ■ Good staff morale and a values-based culture. 

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Key financial highlights

Adjusted operating profit 
(pre-tax)

Underwriting result
(£m)

Return on equity 
(%)

£89m

2010: £103m

Combined ratio

95.0%

2010: 92.4%

2011

2010

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Underwriting margin 
(%)

4

2011

2010

Gross premiums 
(£m)

5.0

2011

7.6

2010

14.9

19.0

761

746

Number of employees

Some of our brands

2,390

2010: 2,222

Short-Term Insurance

Mutual & Federal (M&F) is our 
short-term insurer in South Africa, 
with operations in Namibia, 
Botswana and Zimbabwe. 

Peter Todd
Managing Director

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Overview and strategy
M&F provides a full range of short-term insurance products 
to commercial and domestic customers in five principal 
portfolios: Commercial, Corporate, Personal, Risk Finance 
and Credit. 

Our strategy is to deliver strong underwriting profit and 
revenue growth by building a profitable multi-channel 
business through which we can deliver competitive 
customer value propositions. Our vision is to become  
the short-term insurer of choice.

Over the coming years, M&F will continue focusing on 
delivering operational efficiencies and driving growth 
through the core broker business as well as alternative 
channels including direct through iWyze, underwriting 
management agencies and niche businesses.

Our five strategic drivers are to:

1  Embed profitable and sound underwriting processes 

2  Develop compelling and innovative offerings 
for targeted customer and broker segments 

3  Grow our customer base by servicing customers 

through their channel of choice

4  Deliver value through efficient and customer-

centric processes

5  Transform our business to benefit our people 

and other stakeholders.

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Business profile

Commercial

Corporate

Personal

The Commercial portfolio is the largest, with a broad spectrum of customers ranging from 
small to medium businesses. It covers primarily property, liability, motor, engineering,  
marine and crop insurance risks.

The Corporate portfolio focuses on corporate clients, from mid-size companies to large 
multinationals. Corporate offerings include protection, fire policies, accident policies and 
motor fleet insurance. The portfolio is staffed by specialists in corporate insurance, who 
support the major brokers in this sphere with expertise in mining, engineering, chemical 
production, motor manufacture and other major sectors.

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to domestic customers of all ages and various financial groups. Our comprehensive 
personalised branded product, Allsure, continues to enjoy significant market support from 
the broker community. The portfolio also offers various white-labelled intermediary-branded 
products. It includes iWyze, the direct channel valuables insurance product, as well as a 
hospital cash plan, personal accident policies and low-cost products covering livestock  
and informal dwellings.

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The Risk Finance portfolio, comprising alternative risk transfer products, is provided by a 
well-regarded team which is recognised in the industry as one of South Africa’s largest 
suppliers of risk financing solutions, primarily to medium-sized commercial customers.

Credit

The Credit portfolio is underwritten by a subsidiary of M&F with a market-leading position  
in credit insurance.

Percentage of 2011 gross premiums

■ Commercial 
■
■ Corporate 
■ Personal 
■ Risk Finance 
■ Credit 

44%
9%
30%
9%
8%

Find further details of the operational  
results of the business within the  
Financial Disclosure Supplements on: 
www.oldmutual.com/ir

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Solid performance while building a strong foundation for growth

Highlights

Underwriting margin
Underwriting result
Long-term investment return (LTIR)
AOP (IFRS basis, pre-tax)
Gross premiums
Earned premiums
Claims ratio
Combined ratio
International solvency ratio
Return on equity

Review of 2011 results
M&F delivered a sound underwriting result in 2011, with 
results reflecting a more normalised year compared to 
the very favourable trading conditions and benign claims 
environment in 2010.

We increased our focus on achieving premium growth 
through alternative distribution channels, including direct 
through iWyze, underwriting management agencies and 
niche business. 

iWyze, M&F’s direct insurance joint venture with the 
Emerging Markets Mass Foundation distribution team, is 
progressing well and continues to meet premium growth 
targets. While there was continued investment in this 
start-up phase, including an increased headcount from 52 
in 2010 to 206 in 2011, we are on track to deliver 
underwriting profitability in accordance with expectations.

As part of its ongoing capital management programme with 
the rest of the Group, M&F restructured its capital base and 
paid almost R1.0 billion of dividends in 2011. The company 
remains well capitalised, with a 66% international solvency 
ratio (the ratio of net assets to net premiums) at 
31 December 2011. Working closely with the FSB and 
Group, M&F continues to make good progress in its 
preparation for Solvency II and its South African equivalent, 
Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM). 

2011

5.0%
354
625
1,039
8,865
7,039
65.2%
95.0%
66%
14.9%

Rm

2010

% change

(32%)
(2%)
 (11%)
5%
3%

7.6%
519
639
1,162
8,442
6,859
63.8%
92.4%
73%
19.0%

Underwriting and IFRS AOP results
AOP was 11% down on 2010, due to a decrease in the 
underwriting result and a marginal decrease in the LTIR 
due to the lower prescribed rate applied in 2011.

RoE reduced from 19.0% to 14.9%, reflecting reduced 
after-tax profits compared to 2010. 

Premiums increased modestly as softening rates offset unit 
growth. The commercial portfolio performed well in terms  
of client retention and underwriting profit. iWyze achieved 
outstanding premium growth in its first full year of operation 
and has already become a meaningful competitor in the 
direct market for personal insurance.

The underwriting result was 32% down on 2010, impacted 
by softening rates and the expected normalisation in claims 
patterns which saw the claims ratio increase from 63.8% 
in 2010 to 65.2%. The 2010 claims ratio benefited from 
unusually benign claims conditions in H2 2010, with 
abnormally low levels of commercial losses and very 
favourable climatic conditions.

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Expenses increased, primarily due to investment in change 
management initiatives to improve client service and drive 
operating efficiencies, as well as development costs 
associated with iWyze. 

The Credit Guarantee operation performed particularly  
well over the period, with other portfolios generating solid 
returns. The businesses in Namibia and Botswana 
continued to deliver satisfactory contributions. 

Outlook
We anticipate real top-line growth in 2012, with increased 
contributions from alternative channels including direct 
through iWyze and underwriting management agencies.

Our further investment in change management initiatives 
over the next two years will directly improve the claims ratio 
while reducing the expense base over the medium-term. 
We expect this to lead to an underwriting margin that  
is sustainable throughout the underwriting cycle in the 
long-term and in line with the 2011 margin. 

We continue to partner Old Mutual Emerging Markets in the 
rest of Africa to identify opportunities and exploit synergies.

iWyze achieved 
outstanding premium 
growth in its first full year 
of operation and has 
already become a 
meaningful competitor in 
the direct market for 
personal insurance.

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Key financial highlights

Adjusted operating profit (pre-tax):   

Operating margin (before non-
controlling interests (NCI)):     

2011

2010

£67m

2011

£72m

2010

18%

18%

Adjusted operating profit (pre-tax): 
Results from Continuing Operations1,2

Funds under management:    
Results from Continuing Operations1 

Funds under management:  
Reported results

£82m

2010: £73m

Operating margin (before NCI): 
Results from Continuing Operations1

22%

2010: 20%

2011

2010

£128.8bn

2011

£133.5bn

2010

Net client cash outflow:      
Results from Continuing Operations1 

Net client cash outflow:   
Reported results

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2011

2010

£4.2bn

2011

£8.2bn

2010

£148.8bn

£166.4bn

£15.3bn

£12.0bn

Number of employees

Some of our brands

1,564

2010: 1,537

1.  Excludes results of Old Mutual Capital, Lincluden, and Dwight Asset Management, 

as well as £7.5 million of restructuring costs in 2011.

2.  Excludes gains/losses on seed capital which have been captured at the Group level. 

The comparative period has been restated accordingly.

US Asset Management

Trading as Old Mutual Asset 
Management (OMAM) and 
based in Boston, US Asset 
Management (USAM) delivers 
institutionally-driven, active 
investment management 
through its multi-boutique 
framework.

Peter Bain
President and Chief Executive Officer

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Overview
USAM’s 17 boutique firms (affiliates) offer a diverse set of 
products to a wide range of institutions around the globe.

USAM supports its affiliates from the centre by providing 
selected product distribution, seed capital, risk management, 
technology, legal and internal audit capabilities. With strong 
support from a global wealth management organisation, 
affiliates can remain focused on generating superior 
investment performance for their clients.

2011 Funds under management mix  

FUM

$bn

■

US Equities 

65
■ Global & Non-US Equities  48
■ Fixed Income 
61
■ Alternatives 
30
■ Stable value 
27

The new management team at USAM has taken steps to 
refine strategy and refocus the business. As part of that 
effort, several affiliate firms are being divested to improve 
USAM’s longer-term financial performance. USAM is 
therefore presenting its results on two bases: reported 
results, and results from continuing operations. Results 
from continuing operations exclude the operating results of 
the affiliates being divested and certain restructuring costs.1

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US investors experienced highly volatile and unpredictable 
market conditions throughout 2011, with relatively flat 
equity market performance for the year. Globally, equities 
experienced declines in 2011, impacted by concerns over 
sovereign debt and the pace of the global economic 
recovery. Fixed income, alternative strategies, and emerging 
market equities were favoured by investors during 2011, 
while the other equity strategies, particularly US equities, 
continued to experience outflows.

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Over 140 investment strategies across a wide array of categories

US Equities

Global & Non-US Equities

Fixed Income

Alternatives

 ■ Large, mid, small, all-cap
 ■ Growth, value, core

 ■ Global, international, regional
 ■ Emerging markets

 ■ Long duration, intermediate, 

short-term

 ■ Core, core plus, high yield
 ■ TIPS
 ■ Global, international, 
emerging markets

 ■ Market neutral
 ■ Hedge fund seeding
 ■ Hedge fund emerging 

managers

 ■ Managed futures
 ■ Real estate (public, private, 

global)
 ■ Timber

Find further details of the operational  
results of the business within the  
Financial Disclosure Supplements on: 
www.oldmutual.com/ir

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CONTINUED

USAM boutique investment managers (Continuing Operations)1

Affiliate

Established

Investment style 

Funds under management  
31 December 2011

1979

Fundamental US global & international 
value equity & US fixed income manager

1981

Fundamental global fixed income manager

1986

1966

1969

1986

Quantitative US, global & international 
equity manager

Public and private real estate, real estate 
debt manager

Fundamental US/international value equity 
& fixed income manager

Fundamental & quantitative global and fixed 
income manager

1970

Quantitative equity & fixed income manager

1981

Timber investment management company 

1973

Fundamental US growth manager

1972

Fundamental US value equity manager

2010

2005

1999

Fundamental international growth 
equity manager

Fundamental US small/SMID growth & 
global equity manager

Multi-strategy fund of hedge funds manager 
& hedge fund seeding specialist

1951

Fundamental US growth manager

2005

Quantitative commodity trading adviser of 
managed futures portfolios

$59.7bn

$45.0bn

$42.2bn

$19.2bn

$6.8bn

$6.2bn

$5.9bn

$5.8bn

$3.4bn

$1.9bn

$1.5bn

$1.2bn

$0.9bn

$0.4bn

$0.2bn

1. Excludes two affiliates held for sale: Old Mutual Capital and Dwight Asset Management.

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Continuing operations achieve improved financial results and reduced  
net outflows despite challenging markets

Highlights

2011

2010

Reported results
AOP (IFRS basis, pre-tax)
Operating margin, before non-controlling interests
Operating margin, after non-controlling interests
Net client cash flows ($bn)
Funds under management ($bn)

Results from continuing operations
AOP (IFRS basis, pre-tax)
Operating margin, before non-controlling interests
Operating margin, after non-controlling interests
Net client cash flows ($bn)
Funds under management ($bn)

107
18%
15%
(24.6)
231.5

131
22%
19%
(6.7)
200.3

111
18%
15%
(18.4)*
258.3*

113
20%
17%
(12.6)*
207.4*

$m

change

(4)%

(34)%
(10)%

16%

47%
(3)%

*  2010 NCCF and FUM were restated to exclude some of Larch Lane’s funds, which were also included in Emerging Markets’ NCCF and FUM.

Review of 2011 results
We are presenting our results on two bases: reported 
results, and results from continuing operations. Results 
from continuing operations exclude the operating results of 
the affiliates being divested and certain restructuring costs.1 
The key impact of these strategic actions, reflected in the 
continuing operations, is a reduction in net cash outflows 
from $24.6 billion to $6.7 billion and an increase in operating 
margin from 18% to 22%. In addition, fees on average 
assets under management increase from 28 basis points  
to 31 basis points on a continuing basis.

AOP results and operating margin
Reported results
IFRS AOP was down 4% to $107 million (2010: $111 million). 
These figures exclude gains/losses on seed capital which 
have been captured at the Group level for 2011 and 
comparative periods. Seed capital investment returns  
on strategies managed by our affiliates were $(0.5) million 
(2010: $24.0 million). 

Overall revenue was down $3.6 million due to a 2% 
decrease in average FUM and lower performance 
fees, partially offset by higher transaction fees.

Management fees decreased by $11.6 million or 2% and 
performance fees were down $2.7 million or 25%. However, 
transaction fees were up $7.3 million or 103% to 
$14.4 million for the period.

AOP operating margin before non-controlling interests was 
consistent with 2010 at 18%. 

Results from continuing operations
Excluding operating results from affiliates held for sale or 
disposed of, and adding back $12 million of restructuring 
costs, AOP was up 16% to $131 million (2010: $113 million). 
This was largely due to higher management fees, lower 
amortisation of deferred acquisition costs and impairments 
during 2012, and lower central costs. 

Management fees were up $6 million or 1% due to higher 
average FUM.

AOP operating margin before non-controlling interests was 
22%, up from 20% in 2010. Improving operating margin 
continues to be an area of focus.

Investment Performance
Results from continuing operations
Investment performance continued to improve during the 
period. For the one-year period ended 31 December 2011, 
62% of assets outperformed benchmarks, compared to 
57% at 31 December 2010. 

Over the three- and five-year periods to 31 December 2011, 
68% and 67% of assets outperformed benchmarks, 
compared to 49% and 65% at 31 December 2010. The 
increase was driven by improving performance in 
International Equity and Global Fixed Income. 

1  Excludes results of OMCAP, Lincluden, and Dwight Asset Management, as well 

as $12 million of restructuring costs in 2011.

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Funds under management and net client cash flows

Opening FUM
Gross inflows
Gross outflows

Net outflows
Market and other

Closing FUM

Flows from continuing  
operations

Flows from disposed of  
or held for sale affiliates

Total

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207.4
25.6
(32.3)

(6.7)
(0.4)

200.3

2010

198.8
25.9
(38.5)

(12.6)
21.2

207.4

2011

50.9
3.8
(21.7)

(17.9)
(1.8)

31.2

2010

61.9
5.0
(10.8)

(5.8)
(5.2)

50.9

2011

258.3
29.4
(54.0)

(24.6)
(2.2)

231.5

$bn

2010

260.7
30.9
(49.3)

(18.4)
16.0

258.3

Funds under management and net client  
cash flows
Reported results
FUM ended the year at $231.5 billion (2010: $258.3 billion). 
The disposal of Lincluden Investment Management during 
the period reduced FUM by $2.7 billion.

Net client cash outflows totalled $24.6 billion (2010: 
$18.4 billion), largely relating to low-fee stable value funds. 
Market volatility and weakness during the year contributed 
to withdrawals and reallocations.

Gross inflows during the period totalled $29.4 billion (2010: 
$30.9 billion), with $7.6 billion of gross inflows coming from 
new client accounts during the period.

Gross outflows totalled $54.0 billion (2010: $49.3 billion), 
with $18.8 billion of outflows relating to low-fee stable value 
funds (2010: $8.2 billion).

Results from continuing operations
FUM decreased 3% to $200.3 billion (2010: $207.4 
billion), reflecting flat markets overall and net client cash 
outflows. FUM was primarily long-term investment 
products diversified across equities ($113 billion, 56%), 
fixed income ($57 billion, 29%) and alternative 
investments ($30 billion, 15%).

Net client cash outflows of $6.7 billion showed 
improvement over the prior year (2010: $12.6 billion), as 
enhanced investment performance stabilised outflows in 
key products. Net outflows declined to $0.1 billion in Q4 
2011, their lowest quarterly level since Q2 2009. 

Gross inflows totalled $25.6 billion (2010: $25.9 billion). Top 
2011 gross sales were driven by Emerging Market Equity, 
Real Estate, Fixed Income and Low Volatility Equity. 

Gross outflows totalled $32.3 billion (2010: $38.5 billion), 
driven by outflows from US equities, particularly large cap. 
This is consistent with the overall asset management 
industry’s experience in 2011.

Non-US clients currently account for 34% of FUM. 
International, Emerging Markets and Global Equity 
products account for 24% of FUM.

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The new management 
team at USAM has 
taken steps to refine 
strategy and refocus 
the business. As part 
of that effort, several 
affiliate firms are being 
divested to improve 
USAM’s longer-term 
financial performance. 

Corporate developments
The transaction transferring ownership of Lincluden 
Investment Management to the affiliate’s management 
team closed on 30 December 2011.

The previously announced sale of our domestic retail 
business, OMCAP, is progressing as planned and is 
expected to close in April 2012.

In February 2012 we announced that Goldman Sachs had 
entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dwight Asset 
Management Company LLC, an institutional fixed income 
affiliate based in Burlington, Vermont. The transaction is 
expected to close in Q2 2012.

In Q4 2011 we announced organisational changes 
to support the strategic expansion of our global 
distribution efforts.

Outlook
We expect continued improvement in NCCF in 2012 as 
a result of enhanced investment performance in a number 
of key products. The improved investment performance 
over 2011 initially reduced outflows and subsequently 
increased sales: we believe this trend could lead to positive 
flows in 2012.

In 2012 and beyond, we expect to make investments in our 
global distribution capabilities to further leverage Group 
capabilities and distribution platforms. This will enable 
USAM to better leverage the affiliates’ investment expertise 
for clients around the world.

We remain committed to achieving our financial goals of 
25% to 30% operating margin and expect continued 
improvement in USAM’s margin in 2012, particularly if equity 
markets remain strong throughout the year and NCCF turns 
positive. However, we will continue to invest in the business 
by incurring current expenses which may partially inhibit 
margin growth in the short term but will achieve important 
financial and strategic objectives in future years.

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Reserve development
The development of the Bermuda business reserves is 
shown below:

Variable annuity investments
Variable annuity guarantee 
liabilities
Deferred & fixed index annuities

Total insurance liabilities

2011

3,130

1,061
310

4,831

$m

2010

4,495

672
939

6,106

The overall reduction in liabilities reflects the surrenders 
experienced in the year and negative investment return 
earned, offset by the increase in the guarantee reserve.

Of total insurance liabilities of $4,831 million, $3,130 million 
is held in a separate account relating to variable annuity 
investments. Of the remaining reserves, $1,061 million 
relates to guarantee liabilities on the variable annuity 
business and $640 million relates to other policyholder 
liabilities, including deferred and fixed indexed 
annuity business.

The GMAB reserve in respect of universal guarantee option 
(UGO) contracts has been set up for the full period of the 
contract length, including the five-year anniversary top-up 
of 105% of total premiums, the 10-year 120% top-up of total 
premiums and any high watermark contracts.

At the year end, there were 27,820 UGO contracts, of 
which 720 had high watermarks over and above the 
120% top-up entitlements.

The $389 million increase in GMAB reserve during the 
period was largely attributable to poor equity market 
performance, but lower interest rates increased the 
reserve by almost $79 million.

Mapping of policyholder investment funds to hedgeable 
indices is performed at least quarterly. This has improved 
the accuracy of the GMAB reserve calculations and the 
effectiveness of hedging.

Non-core business – Bermuda
Bermuda remains a non-core business. Its results are 
excluded from the Group’s IFRS AOP, although the interest 
charged on internal loans from Bermuda to Group Head 
Office is charged to AOP.

Overview
The business continued to implement its run-off strategy 
of risk reduction while managing for value. Ongoing 
business service improvements, enhancements to liability 
management and further de-risking initiatives, targeted 
specifically at contracts that have elected the Guaranteed 
Minimum Accumulation Benefits (GMABs), are designed 
to accelerate the run-off of the in-force book.

IFRS results
The IFRS post-tax loss of $286 million (2010: $41 million 
gain) was driven by the guarantee performance arising 
primarily from equity market declines in H2 and a reduction 
in US interest rates. There was an IFRS post-tax profit of 
$76 million in H1. The impact of the dynamic hedging 
programme over 2011 helped to reduce the losses on the 
variable annuity guarantees. Notwithstanding the hedging 
programme, given current equity market conditions the 
business expects volatility in earnings in the short to 
medium term.

MCEV results
The 2011 operating MCEV earnings resulted in a gain 
after tax of $76 million (2010: $36 million loss). Operating 
earnings include positive persistency experience variance 
and assumption changes in 2011 compared to one-time 
negative corrections from data migration and modelling 
changes in 2010.

Total MCEV earnings including economic variances and 
other non-operating variances were a loss of $343 million, 
mainly due to significant underperformance of the variable 
annuity guarantee business.

The MCEV balance reflects the value of the reserve plus  
the other net assets of the business including the collateral 
posted under the hedge programme, the fee revenue to  
be collected and expenses to be paid to run off the entire 
business. Thus the VIF reflects the full market cost of 
providing an instrument that matches the expected 
development of the liability. Changes in the hedge 
programme from the levels actually used will not change  
the value of the reserve itself, but may change the value  
of the collateral posted under the hedging programme 
and the adjusted net worth which, together with the VIF, 
generate the MCEV for the business.

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The sensitivity to capital markets on GMABs with UGO is highlighted in the table below, showing quarterly GMAB reserves 
and estimated fifth-anniversary guarantees over the past 18 months: 

Period

30 June 2010
30 September 2010
31 December 2010
31 March 2011
30 June 2011
30 September 2011
31 December 2011

Guarantee reserves for UGO GMAB

Estimated top-up payment of meeting 
UGO GMAB fifth-anniversary guarantees

$m

996
824
660
573
620
1,144
1,035

775
458
334
303
346
738
689

Surrender development
Surrender activity is being proactively managed through further service enhancements and fund expansion, with 
conservation strategies focused on the non-GMAB book of business. The account values associated with GMAB and 
non-GMAB for 2011 and 2010 are shown in the table below:

Period

31 December 2011
31 December 2010

Account Value: GMAB

Account Value: Non-GMAB

Total Account Value

2,858
4,143

912
1,291

3,770
5,434

$m

We continue to engage with distributors, developing 
the customer proposition and experience through a 
strengthened adviser-focused strategy. Bermuda is 
maintaining high levels of customer service through 
continued operational and service improvements. 

Risk management and investment portfolio update
No defaults or impairments were recorded during 2011. The 
portfolio has a current average rating of A3 (Moody’s rating 
scale) with investment-grade quality holdings continuing to 
represent more than 80% of the portfolio. 

The $1.2 billion of surrenders across the whole Bermuda 
book during the period amounted to some 22% of the 
total 31 December 2010 account value. This was partially 
attributable to initiatives allowing UGO GMAB contract 
holders to surrender their contracts without penalty 
charges. These initiatives increased the rate, value and 
number of guarantee contract surrenders; overall surrender 
activity across UGO GMAB was over two and a half times 
2010 levels (2011: 2,175 policies; 2010: 796 policies). 
Management continues to assess demand for similar  
offers to accelerate further the run-off of the UGO 
guaranteed book.

Future surrender behaviour will be influenced by the extent 
to which the underlying fund values of the policyholders are 
close to or above the level of the guarantee. 

The net unrealised position was a gain of $29 million at 
31 December 2011 (2010: $31 million gain) as a result 
of continued de-risking efforts and the decrease in US 
interest rates, offset somewhat by a widening of corporate 
spreads. Overall, the book value of the portfolio reduced 
from $0.8 billion at the end of 2010 to $0.6 billion at 
31 December 2011, largely due to the sale of investments 
to meet surrender activity and withdrawals.

The year-end book value of assets in the investment 
portfolio with a market value to book value ratio of 80% or 
lower was zero (compared to $3 million at 31 December 
2010). The bond portfolio which forms part of shareholder 
assets is invested to match the duration of obligations to 
policyholders and has a running yield of 5%, higher than  
the 3% interest credited to certain policyholders.

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CONTINUED

Statutory capital reduced to $291 million at 31 December 
2011, reflecting the IFRS loss for the year (2010: $625 
million). Capital allocated to the business on a local level 
takes into account the inter-company loan from the 
business to the Group. At the end of December 2011, the 
Bermuda Class E prudential rules had been signed into 
Bermudan law, so the new BMA regulatory framework is 
in effect from 2011. The amount of Bermuda solvency 
required capital for financial year 2011 is estimated at about 
$120 million under the current transition rule. The business 
continues to maintain a sufficient statutory capital surplus 
against such a requirement.

Treasury management of Bermuda business assets 
The Bermuda business assets backing the liabilities include:

Cash
Fixed income general account 
portfolio
Collateral for hedge assets
Inter-company loan
Separate account assets
Other assets

Total assets

2011

256

543
91
830
3,130
310

5,160

$m

2010

114

839
77
880
4,495
384

6,789

As the most active period of the fifth-anniversary guarantee 
payments approaches, the business will seek to sell assets 
from its fixed income general account portfolio and, together 
with the other liquid assets of the business, meet the cash 
requirements of the top-ups as they fall due. Collateral 
posted for the hedge assets will adjust as the liabilities 
develop and could be released as the business evolves. 
The inter-company loan is structured in tranches, allowing 
capital and treasury management flexibility if this is required 
from this source.

Hedging
Over the period, the business continued to dynamically 
manage the underlying economics of the hedging 
programme to strike a balance between the potential 
changes in the income statement, liquidity and transactional 
costs. At 31 December 2011, hedge coverage over equities 
was 54% (2010: 58%) and 53% over foreign exchange 
(2010: 39%), with interest rates remaining unhedged (2010: 
nil). The exposures are primarily to Asian equities and 
currencies versus the US dollar.

At 31 December 2011, the total cost of fifth-anniversary 
top-up payments to policyholders in respect of the GMAB 
liabilities over the next two years was estimated at 
$689 million (30 September 2011: $738 million; 30 June 
2011: $346 million; 31 December 2010: $334 million).  
The actual cash cost will be affected by any changes in 
policyholders’ account values until the fifth-anniversary  
date of each policy, offset by hedge gains or losses. 
At 29 February 2012, rising equity markets had reduced  
the cash cost of top-up payments required to meet 
fifth-anniversary guarantees to $426 million and the GMAB 
reserve to $791 million. At the level of hedging in place at 
29 February 2012, a 1% fall in equity market levels would 
have increased the net cash cost of meeting policyholder 
guarantees by approximately $11 million.

In March 2012, Bermuda enhanced its hedging strategy  
by implementing an option-based hedging arrangement. 
This strategy will protect against downside risk from further 
equity market declines relating to meeting the cash cost  
of the fifth-year anniversary of UGO contract top-up 
obligations, while maintaining the potential to realise gains  
if equity markets move higher. The existing futures-based 
dynamic hedging strategy will remain in place for the 
variable annuity book exposure beyond five years. Also,  
the exposure to currency movements impacting the UGO 
top-ups will continue to be dynamically hedged.

Fifth-anniversary payments began on 5 January 2012, but 
the bulk of the payments will be made between 1 October 
2012 and 31 January 2013. The enhanced hedging strategy 
aims to provide greater cash flow certainty over the period 
when the fifth-year anniversary UGO top-up payments fall 
due. We remain confident that the fifth-anniversary top-ups 
can be met within the estimated cost at 31 December 2011 
and expect the cash cost to be met from Bermuda’s 
own resources.

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Sales
APE sales rose 6% to SEK2,381 million, driven by strong 
sales in Denmark as a result of attractive products and 
continued distribution growth via the tied agents sales 
force. Swedish APE sales were 5% down, with lower 
Corporate sales. Corporate business growth was held back 
by the delay in launching the occupational pension version 
of the Depå product and the current market conditions, 
which favour products with guarantees.

Mutual fund sales were up 1% to SEK6,553 million, with 
customers transferring assets to the low-risk and popular 
Skandia interest-earning funds.

IFRS AOP results*
IFRS AOP (pre-tax) was down 16% to SEK1,036 million 
(2010: SEK1,227 million). The 2010 result included one-off 
income of SEK126 million related to a divestment of a 
private equity holding and restructuring costs of SEK49 
million. The 2011 result includes several one-off costs 
totalling SEK281 million, including IT costs. Excluding all 
one-off items, the underlying profit was SEK1,317 million 
(2010: SEK1,150 million) – a robust result in a challenging 
economic climate.

MCEV results
Operating MCEV earnings after tax increased to SEK1,336 
million (2010: SEK503 million), primarily due to growth in 
existing business contribution, strong new business value 
and a strengthening of operating assumptions in 2010 that 
negatively impacted 2010 earnings. Operating MCEV 
earnings included two one-off effects, a restructuring 
expense from the ongoing redundancy programme and  
a change in the modelling of tax on overhead expenses. 
Without these two non-recurring effects, operating MCEV 
earnings after tax would have been SEK1,482 million. 

The value of new business increased 27% to SEK584 
million, driven by positive new sales in Skandia Link 
Denmark. The APE margin increased from 20.6% to 24.5%, 
due to a more profitable product mix.

*As a non-core business the Nordic results are reported on an IFRS basis. 
However, for the purpose of comparability with previous periods Nordic has been 
included in the Business Review as if it is still being reported under AOP.  

Discontinued business – Nordic and US Life
Profit from discontinued business after tax was £198 million 
(2010: £728 million loss), comprising US Life profits of £130 
million (2010: £713 million loss) and Nordic profits of £68 
million (2010: £15 million loss).

US Life profits were driven by the recycling of the available 
for sale reserve and foreign exchange to the income 
statement. The 2010 loss reflected the impairment of the 
US Life business in anticipation of its sale on the terms 
agreed with the purchaser. 

Nordic
As a non-core business, the Nordic results are reported on 
an IFRS basis. However, for the purpose of comparability 
with previous periods, Nordic has been included in the 
Business Review below as if it was still being reported 
under AOP.

Despite the turbulent stock markets and a number of one-off 
costs, the Nordic business had a robust underlying IFRS 
AOP result. A cost-reduction programme was implemented 
during the year and the management team has refocused 
the business on delivering its key priorities, namely:

 ■ Strengthening distribution power
 ■ Improving the product offering to customers
 ■ Stimulating future NCCF growth
 ■ Increasing operational efficiency to secure profitable 

growth

 ■ Optimising structures and risk frameworks to 

unlock value.

Product development has been accelerated, with the 
release of the Depå pension product and a bank investment 
savings account. 

According to customer surveys, Skandiabanken had the 
most satisfied banking customers for the tenth year in  
a row and was also nominated for best customer service  
in Norway in 2011.

Net client cash flow and funds under management
NCCF decreased 3% to SEK7.2 billion, driven by higher 
surrenders in the occupational pension business and 
outflows from the bank offering. The increased outflows  
in Skandiabanken were primarily driven by customers 
seeking lower-risk investments, such as deposit accounts. 
Skandiabanken Sweden retail deposits grew, which are  
not included in NCCF, to SEK33.1 billion. 

FUM reduced by 8% to SEK134.3 billion at the year end, 
with negative market movements partially offset by positive 
NCCF. The stock market recovery during Q4 had a positive 
impact on FUM. 

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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Old Mutual showed strong 
growth in profits… AOP earnings 
per share were up 10%1 to 
15.7p… RoE increased to  
14.6% from 14.2%.

Philip Broadley
Group Finance Director

Overview
Following the proposed sale of the Nordic business, Nordic 
has been classified as a discontinued operation and its 
profits have been excluded from AOP. Seed capital 
investment in strategies managed by USAM affiliates and 
seed capital investment returns previously recognised within 
USAM were recorded at Group level for 2011. Comparatives 
were restated accordingly. USAM’s Dwight, Lincluden and 
OMCAP affiliates were included in all reported results unless 
otherwise stated. Nordic, US Life and Bermuda results are 
included in the Group’s MCEV results.

During the year to 31 December 2011 (‘2011’ or ‘the year’) 
Old Mutual showed strong growth in profits compared to 
the year to 31 December 2010 (‘2010’). AOP earnings per 
share were up 10% to 15.7p for 2011 (2010: 14.3p). Pre-tax 
AOP was £1,515 million, an increase of £144 million on 
2010. On a constant currency basis profits increased by 
£182 million, with notable improvements in profitability in the 
Mass Foundation Cluster (MFC) and Retail Affluent in our 
Emerging Markets business and increased non-interest 
revenue income in our South African banking business. 
Including Nordic, AOP earnings per share were up 9% to 
17.5p (2010: 16.0p).

Group net margin (measured as profit before tax on average 
assets) increased by 4 basis points over the year from 42 
basis points (excluding Nordic) to 46 basis points.  

The increase was driven by a strong improvement in the net 
margin at Nedbank. In Wealth Management the net margin, 
excluding the previously reported smoothing for 
policyholder tax, has improved from 23 basis points to 27 
basis points as a result of the business gaining operational 
leverage, with increased UK Platform FUM and a more 
efficient expense base following the cost reduction 
programme; administrative expenses are now £42 million 
below the prior year.

RoE increased to 14.6% from 14.2%, as a result of the 
increased profits, particularly in Nedbank, offsetting an 
increase in the Group’s equity base, which included the net 
assets of Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi and Swaziland for the 
first time.

While life assurance annual premium equivalent (APE) sales 
were down 6% to £1,207 million, Emerging Markets APE 
sales increased, driven by continued strong protection sales 
in MFC and Retail Affluent. Wealth Management continued 
to grow its single premium Platform sales but APE sales 
were down overall, with lower UK Legacy sales reflecting 
the reduction in the range of Legacy products being offered 
in 2011 and weakened European sentiment.

Non-covered business sales, including unit trust and mutual 
fund sales, were up 13%, driven by pension sales in the 
Colombian business of Emerging Markets. Strong sales 
continued in Wealth Management, up 4% on 2010.

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Stephen Belgrad 
OMAM US 

Summarised Financial Information

IFRS results
Basic earnings per share
IFRS profit/(loss) after tax attributable to equity holders of the parent

Sales statistics
Life assurance sales – APE basis
Life assurance sales – PVNBP basis
Value of new business
Non-covered sales2

MCEV results3
Adjusted Group MCEV (£bn)
Adjusted Group MCEV per share 
AOP Group MCEV earnings (post-tax and non-controlling interests)
Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings per share 

Financial metrics

Return on equity4
Return on Group MCEV3
Net client cash flows (£bn)
Funds under management (£bn)
Interim dividend
Final dividend
Financial Groups Directive (FGD) surplus5 (£bn)
Net asset value per share

 2011  

20101

% change

£m

12.9p
667

1,207
9,113
177
14,374

10.8
194.1p
1,055
19.4p

14.6%
10.7%
(11.4)
267.2
1.5p
3.5p
2.0
140p

(6.5)p
(282)

1,290
10,162
159
13,018

11.0
202.2p
830
15.5p

14.2%
10.9%
(6.7)
295.2
1.1p
2.9p
2.1
151p

(6)%
(10)%
11%
10%

27%
25%

(70)%
(9)%
36%
21%
(5)%

1 The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued.
2 Includes all unit trust and mutual fund sales.
3 Includes Nordic and US Life.
4  RoE is calculated as core business IFRS AOP (post-tax) divided by average shareholders’ equity (excluding the perpetual preferred callable securities).
5  The Group’s regulatory capital surplus, calculated under the EU Financial Groups Directive, was £2.0 billion at 31 December 2011. The Group 
followed the FSA’s requirements, and gave six months advance notice of its right in January 2012 to call the remaining €200 million of the €750 
million Lower Tier 2 euro bond that was partially redeemed in July 2011. As a result of that notice, the Lower Tier 2 instrument was excluded from 
the regulatory capital surplus calculations as at 31 December 2011.

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Overview of FY 2011 results

Group highlights1
Adjusted operating profit (IFRS basis, pre-tax)
Adjusted operating earnings per share (IFRS basis)
Group net margin2
Return on equity3
Life assurance sales – APE basis
Non-covered sales4
LTS net client cash flow (£bn)
Net client cash flows (£bn)5
Funds under management (£bn)
Full dividend for the year
Total profit/(loss) after tax attributable to equity  
holders of the parent

2010  
(constant  
currency)

1,333
13.9p

1,277
12,766
4.3
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282.3

£m

% change

2010
(as reported)

% change

14%
13%

(6)%
13%
(26)%
91%
(5)%

1,371
14.3p
42bps
14.2%
1,290
13,018
4.3
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295.2
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11%
10%
4bps
40bps
(6)%
10%
(26)%
92%
(9)%
25%

2011

1,515
15.7
46bps
14.6%
1,207
14,374
3.2
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267.2
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1  The figures in the table are in respect of core continuing businesses only and the 2010 comparatives have been restated accordingly. Nordic was 

classified as discontinued business in 2011 as it is subject to a sale agreement.

2 Ratio of AOP before tax to average assets under management in the period.
3  RoE is calculated as core business IFRS AOP (post-tax) divided by average shareholders’ equity (excluding the perpetual preferred callable securities).
4 Includes unit trust/mutual funds sales.
5 Total NCCF excludes NCCF from USAM’s Dwight, Lincluden and OMCAP affiliates, which were sold or held for sale at 31 December 2011.

All of our LTS businesses saw positive NCCF during the 
year. The Group had a small net client cash outflow of 
£0.2 billion (2010: £2.5 billion outflow), excluding £11.2 billion 
of net outflows from USAM’s affiliates which were sold or 
held for sale at 31 December 2011. The improvement was 
primarily due to improved NCCF in USAM’s continuing 
business, reflecting markedly improved investment 
performance on a number of key strategies.

On a constant currency basis closing FUM decreased by 
5% driven by negative market movements in H2 and net 
client cash outflows in USAM. Over the year the FTSE and 
MSCI World indices fell by 6% and 8% respectively, the JSE 
All Share and S&P 500 indices were broadly flat and the 
Dow Jones rose by 6%.

The rand weakened by 3% against sterling, on an average 
rate, negatively impacting sterling earnings from our South 
African businesses. The 31 December 2011 rand closing 
rate was down 22% against 31 December 2010, negatively 
impacting sterling FUM from our South African businesses. 
The US dollar weakened by 4% on an average rate, 
negatively impacting sterling earnings from USAM, but was 
flat at closing rate.

Proposed Nordic sale
On 15 December 2011 we announced the sale of our 
Skandia Nordic business, which operates in Sweden, 
Norway and Denmark, to Skandia Liv for net cash 
proceeds of £2.1 billion. Following shareholder approval 
at the Extraordinary General Meeting on 14 March 2012, 
completion is expected on or around 21 March 2012.  
The necessary competition authority and regulatory 
approvals have been obtained.

The total return on the Skandia Investment
Since purchasing the Skandia businesses in 2006, the 
Group has made a total return on investment from the 
acquisition of about £1.8 billion or 45%, giving an internal 
rate of return of 8%.

Net cash flows from Skandia BUs 
Proposed net sale proceeds
Remaining business valued at MCEV 31/12/2011

Total proceeds from and remaining value  
of Skandia BUs
Purchase price

Surplus

Internal rate of return

£bn

0.8 
2.1 
2.9 

5.8
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1.8 

8%

Net cash inflows, including proceeds from disposals, from 
the Skandia businesses to the Group since acquisition have 
amounted to £0.8 billion; the proposed net sale proceeds 
for the Nordic elements of the Skandia businesses are 
£2.1 billion and the MCEV of the remaining Skandia 
businesses within the Group (which ignores the value of 
future new business) is £2.9 billion. The bulk of the 
£4.0 billion consideration for the Skandia businesses was 
paid in February 2006, resulting in an implied surplus for 
shareholders of £1.8 billion from the acquisition.

Dividends and consolidation of shares
Special dividend
Following the proposed Nordic sale, the Board intends to 
return approximately £1.0 billion of net proceeds from the 
disposal to ordinary shareholders by means of a special 
dividend, equivalent to 18p per ordinary share (or its 
equivalent in other applicable currencies), which we expect 
to be paid in June 2012. We are also proposing a 
consolidation of shares following the special dividend of 

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seven new shares of 113/7p nominal per share for every 
eight existing shares of 10p nominal. Reported earnings per 
share for 2012 and 2011 will be restated accordingly.

No scrip alternative to the 18p per ordinary share special 
dividend will be offered.

Final dividend for 2011
Given the continued progress in achieving our debt 
repayment programme, the Board has considered the 
position in respect of the final dividend for 2011 and is 
recommending the payment of a final dividend for 2011  
of 3.5p per ordinary share (or its equivalent in other 
applicable currencies), amounting to about £195 million. 
This is equivalent to 4.0p per new ordinary share once  
the existing shares are consolidated. Based on this 
recommendation, the full-year ordinary dividend would  
be 5.0p, up 25% on 2010.

A scrip dividend alternative is not being made available in 
relation to this dividend in view of the complexities involved 
in the share consolidation, and the Board will consider later 
in 2012 whether to reinstate a scrip dividend alternative for 
the interim dividend for the current year.

Dividend policy
The Board intends to pursue a progressive dividend policy 
consistent with our strategy, having regard to overall capital 
requirements, liquidity and profitability, and targeting 
dividend cover of at least 2.5 times IFRS AOP earnings over 
time. In future we expect to set interim dividends routinely at 
30% of the prior year’s full dividend.

Management discussion and analysis of 
results for FY 2011
The principal businesses of the Group are the LTS division, 
Nedbank, M&F and USAM. The results for each of the LTS 
businesses, Nedbank, M&F and USAM are discussed 
separately in the Business Review which precedes  
this report.

Sources of earnings

Revenue
Fees
Underwriting2
Nedbank net interest income3
Nedbank non-interest revenues
Net other revenue

Total revenues

Expenses
Debt costs
Administration expenses & other expenses
Acquisition expenses

Total expenses

AOP before tax and non-controlling interests

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based fees, transactional fees, performance fees and 
premium-based fees, earned on unit-linked investment 
contracts and Asset Management revenues.

The increase in fees was driven by Wealth Management 
and Emerging Markets, reflecting significantly higher 
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was driven by Emerging Markets, which benefited from 
improved retail mortality and morbidity experience as well 
as more favourable retail persistency experience.

Nedbank net interest income (NII) was up 19% to 
£1,120 million, due to an increase in the NII margin, an 
increase in interest-earning assets and a reduction in 
impairment provisions.

Nedbank non-interest revenue (NIR) was up 11% to 
£1,268 million. NIR included service charges, trading 
income, commission and transactional fees. The increase 
was due to higher commission and fees, higher derivative 
and dividend income and increased transactional volumes.

Net other revenue was flat, with reduced inter-company 
interest paid to Bermuda and small increases in other 
revenues in Nedbank and Emerging Markets, offset 
by a reduction in long-term investment return (LTIR) 
in Wealth Management.

 2011  

20101

% change

£m

2,075
1,471
1,120
1,268
402

6,336

(128)
(3,676)
(1,017)

(4,821)

1,515

1,976
1,419
943
1,145
405

5,888

(128)
(3,460)
(929)

(4,517)

1,371

5%
4%
19%
11%
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(9)%

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3 Presented net of impairments.

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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
CONTINUED

Operating profit analysis

AOP analysis
Long-Term Savings
Nedbank
Mutual & Federal 
US Asset Management

Finance costs
LTIR on excess assets
Net interest payable to non-core operations
Corporate costs
Other net (expenses)/income

AOP

2010  
(constant  
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% change

2010*
(as reported)

% change

£m

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584
100
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1,525

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(60)
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1,333

3%
29%
(11)%
(3)%

12%

–
19%
41%
5%
n/a

14%

787
601
103
72

1,563

(128)
31
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(60)
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1,371

1%
26%
(14)%
(7)%

9%

–
19%
41%
5%
n/a

11%

2011

793
755
89
67

1,704

(128)
37
(23)
(57)
(18)

1,515

* The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued.

Administration expenses increased by 6% to £3,676 million, 
with increased costs in Nedbank (primarily due to higher 
staff costs) and Emerging Markets (driven by one-off project 
costs). Wealth Management reduced its costs, reflecting the 
underlying savings achieved as part of its transformation 
programme. Across the business £11 million was spent in 
2011 on transformation costs associated with cost-saving 
initiatives and £15 million on LTS IT transformation. 

AOP for 2011 increased 
by £144 million on 
a reported basis.

Acquisition expenses increased by 9% to £1,017 million, 
primarily in Wealth Management, which saw increased trail 
commission as a result of higher average FUM.

saw higher claims in H2 as underwriting conditions 
normalised. USAM’s profits were broadly flat despite 
lower average FUM in H2 and restructuring charges.

AOP from operating units increased 12%, primarily as a 
result of a 29% increase in Nedbank’s AOP, driven by higher 
NIR, a moderate improvement in net interest margin and 
lower retail credit losses. LTS was 3% up on 2010, driven 
by a 9% increase in Emerging Markets following strong 
results in MFC and Retail Affluent. AOP in Wealth 
Management was down £18 million to £179 million, with 
2010 benefiting from policyholder tax smoothing of £76 
million compared to £32 million in 2011. Excluding the 
benefit of policyholder tax smoothing for prior years, 
underlying AOP grew by 21%, driven by higher FUM 
balances and reduced absolute levels of expenses. M&F 

AOP for 2011 increased by £144 million on a reported basis; 
this variance includes a positive currency impact on the 
2010 result of £38 million. On a constant currency basis 
AOP increased by £182 million.

Finance costs were flat, with reduced debt levels offset by 
the 8% coupon costs of the £500 million 10-year bond that 
was issued in June 2011. We anticipate lower finance 
charges in the future as the Group debt reduction 
programme continues.

RoE and margin targets

Long-Term Savings1
  Emerging Markets2
  Retail Europe
  Wealth Management

LTS Total

USAM operating margin4
Nordic

 2011  

2010

Target

24%
15%
16%

20%

15%
10%

25%
20%
14%

20%-25%
15%-18%
12%-15%

20%3

16%-18%

15%
11%

25%-30%
12%-15%

1 RoE is calculated as IFRS AOP (post-tax) divided by average shareholders’ equity, excluding goodwill, PVIF and other acquired intangibles.
2 Within Emerging Markets, OMSA is calculated as return on allocated capital.
3 The LTS 2010 RoE has been restated to exclude Nordic.
4  USAM margin is stated after non-controlling interests and excluding gains/losses on seed capital, but makes no adjustment for affiliates held for 

sale or disposed in the period. The results for the comparative period have been restated accordingly to exclude gains on seed capital.

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run-rate savings

2011
  cost incurred

Cumulative cost 
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  2012 run-rate  

target

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11

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13

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 65 
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 15 

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USAM’s operating margin was flat on 2010. However, the 
new USAM management team has taken steps to refocus 
the business. As part of that effort, several affiliate firms are 
being divested to improve longer-term financial performance. 
Excluding the operating results of affiliates being divested 
and certain restructuring costs, the operating margin 
increased to 19% from 17% in 2010.

We are well advanced in delivering the reduction in our cost 
base announced in March 2010, with £89 million of the 
targeted £90 million run-rate savings already achieved.  
The original £100 million target has been re-stated to exclude 
Nordic following the proposed Nordic sale.

Wealth Management had substantially delivered its 2012 
cost-saving target of £45 million by July 2011 and has 
delivered an additional £5 million since then. Retail Europe 
achieved a further £3 million of run-rate savings in the year, 
including savings generated from its Skandia branch in 
South Africa. The LTS IT transformation programme has 
made significant steps forward and is expected to generate 
material savings; benefits from the programme are expected 
to accrue from 2012. USAM delivered around £15 million of 
savings in 2009 and 2010.

Cost reduction targets

Long-Term Savings
  Emerging Markets
  Retail Europe
  Wealth Management

LTS Total
USAM
Group-wide corporate costs

Total

Nordic

LTIR on excess assets increased due to an increase in the 
average asset base, offset by a marginal decline in the 
long-term rate from 9.4% in 2010 to 9.0% in 2011.

Corporate costs were reduced 5% to £57 million. Around 
10% of these costs were incurred in South Africa in respect 
of activities which support the corporate centre. A further 
10% were unavoidable listed holding company costs 
including, amongst other things, corporate insurances, 
audit fees and other recurring professional fees.

The other net expenses increased to £(18) million (2010: 
£4 million income), primarily due to lower seed capital gains 
from USAM affiliates and interest paid to business units for 
cash balances held on their behalf at the centre. Associated 
interest income is recorded at the business unit level.

Group cost savings and RoE and margin 
targets
At the 2009 Preliminary Results and Strategy Update, the 
Group introduced three-year RoE and cost-saving targets.

Wealth Management exceeded its RoE target, assisted by a 
reduced effective tax rate increasing post-tax returns. 
Emerging Markets RoE decreased to 24%, but remains at 
the upper level of the target range, with increased after-tax 
profit more than offset by increased allocated capital 
supporting growth and expansion plans in Africa. Retail 
Europe’s RoE reduced, reflecting a reduction in profits and 
an increased equity base primarily as a result of foreign 
exchange movements.

We are well advanced in 
delivering the reduction 
in our cost base.

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Summary MCEV results

Adjusted Group MCEV per share at 31 December 2010*

  Covered business
  Non-covered business 

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings per share (including Nordic)*

  Economic variances and other earnings
  Foreign exchange and other movements
  Dividends paid to ordinary and preferred shareholders
  Nedbank market value adjustment
  BEE and ESOP adjustments
  Mark to market of debt
  Effect of sale of US Life
  Impact of issue of new shares 

Below the line effects

Adjusted Group MCEV per share at 31 December 2011*

13.4
6.0

(7.0) 
(20.9) 
(2.6) 
(1.1)
 0.6 
(0.7) 
 8.3
(4.1)

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202.2

19.4

(27.5)

194.1

*  The weighted average number of shares used to calculate adjusted Group MCEV per share and adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings per 

share does not include preference shares.

Non-covered business operating earnings per share increased 
by 1.5p from 4.5p for 2010 to 6.0p for 2011 as a result of:

 ■ Higher sterling profits in the banking business due to 

greater fee income and lower bad debt charges
 ■ Slightly lower profits in the asset management 

businesses, arising from reduced FUM at USAM and a 
fall in OMIGSA asset management profits.

During the year Old Mutual owned on average 54% of 
Nedbank. At 31 December 2011, the market capitalisation 
of Nedbank (excluding treasury shares) was R69.6 billion, 
equivalent to £5.5 billion (2010: R63.7 billion; £6.2 billion). 
On a constant currency basis, Nedbank’s market 
capitalisation increased by £0.4 billion from £5.1 billion in 
its 2010, due to an 11% increase in its share price over 
the year.

The Group generated 
£986 million of free 
surplus in the year  
(2010: £748 million).

We identified run-rate savings of £11 million in 2011 in respect 
of Group-wide corporate costs and continue to look for cost 
efficiencies including, where practical and cost-effective, 
using the Group’s South African head office branch.

The £11 million cost of executing the cost-reduction 
programme restricted 2011 profits in Retail Europe and 
Wealth Management. Retail Europe’s costs incurred 
include an element of dual running costs while activity was 
transitioned to South Africa. The costs incurred in executing 
the programmes will continue to restrict profits until the 
programmes are completed.

Summary MCEV results 
The adjusted Group MCEV per share decreased by 4.0% 
(or 8.1p) from 202.2p at 31 December 2010 to 194.1p at 
31 December 2011, largely reflecting foreign exchange 
losses as a result of the weakening of the South African 
rand and adverse market movements. This was partially 
offset by the effect of the sale of US Life.

The adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings per share 
increased by 3.3p from 13.5p in 2010 (15.5p including US 
Life and Nordic) to 16.8p for 2011 (19.4p including Nordic). 

Covered business operating MCEV earnings per share 
increased by 1.3p from 9.7p for 2010 (11.0p including Nordic 
and US Life) to 11.0p for 2011 (13.4p including Nordic) as a 
result of: 

 ■ A strong positive contribution from experience 

variances, largely attributable to favourable mortality 
and persistency experience

 ■ An improved contribution from new business
 ■ An adverse contribution from methodology changes.

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Group (excluding Nedbank) debt movements (IFRS basis) net of holding company cash

Opening debt (net of holding company cash)
Inflows from businesses
Outflows to businesses
Holding company expenses and interest costs
Change in cash from net repayment / issue of debt
Gross debt raised

Gross debt repaid
Debt repaid net of debt raised
Ordinary dividends paid (net of scrip dividend elections)
Other movements

Closing debt (net of holding company cash)

Decrease/(increase) in debt (net of holding company cash)

Free surplus generation 
The Group generated £986 million of free surplus in the  
year (2010: £748 million) of which £554 million (2010: 
£423 million) was generated by the LTS division. Covered 
business (which included Nordic, US Life and Bermuda) 
generated £555 million (2010: £519 million). We expect the 
value of our in-force business (VIF) will generate about 
£1.5 billion over the next three years. Over 60% of this 
surplus is expected to come from non-Emerging Market 
entities. Non-covered business generated £431 million 
(2010: £229 million), with the improvement largely from 
banking, but also gains in short-term insurance and  
asset management.

Sources and uses of free surplus 
Gross inflows from core and continuing operations were 
£1,165 million (2010: £903 million) and new business 
investment was £390 million (2010: £370 million). Total free 
surplus generated from core operations of £931 million 
was significantly higher than the £555 million in 2010 due 
to higher transfers from the VIF and positive experience in 
the life businesses, improved profits in the non-covered 
businesses and lower transfer to capital requirements 
in Nedbank. 

Business local statutory capital cover

OMLAC(SA)
Mutual & Federal
UK

Nedbank*
Nordic
Bermuda (estimated)**

(500)
839

2011

(2,436)
684
(57)
(233)
(339)

339
(48)
88

(2,002)

434

£m

2010

(2,273)
433
–
(210)
(110)

110
(65)
(321)

(2,436)

(163)

(10)
120

Capital, liquidity and leverage 
Debt strategy, activity profile and maturities
In H2, the Group successfully tendered for €550 million of 
the €750 million euro bond. In addition the Group repaid a 
further $50 million of senior debt in September 2011 and 
the remaining €200 million of the €750 million euro bond 
was called in January 2012. 

At 31 January 2012, the Group had repaid £0.6 billion of 
the £1.5 billion debt repayment target, including £110 million 
of debt (net of debt raised) in 2010, £339 million of debt 
(net of debt raised) in 2011 and a further £144 million in 
January 2012.

We intend to use £1.1 billion of the net proceeds of the 
proposed Nordic sale to reduce indebtedness. This will 
increase the Group’s debt repayment plan to a total of 
£1.7 billion. Any decisions regarding the repayment of debt  
will take account of capital treatment and the economic  
impact of the repayment and will, where appropriate, be  
subject to regulatory approval. We do not intend to repay 
further debt until after the payment of the 18p per share 
special dividend to ordinary shareholders.

2011

4.0x
1.5x
2.0x

Core tier 1: 11.0%    
Tier 1: 12.6%    
Total: 15.3%    

6.3x
2.3x

2010

3.9x
2.0x
2.8x
Core tier 1: 10.1%
Tier 1: 11.7%
Total: 15.0%
9.8x
n/a

*  This includes unappropriated profits.
**  The new BMA regulatory framework is in effect from 2011. Bermuda has not submitted its regulatory return for the year ended 31 December 2011, 

but statutory capital cover is estimated to be 2.3x.

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GROUP FINANCE  
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
CONTINUED

Regulatory capital

Ordinary Equity 
Other Tier 1 Equity 

Tier 1 Capital
Tier 2
Deductions from total capital

Total capital resources

£m

4,602
593

5,195
1,893
(1,355)

5,733

2011

%

80
10

90
34
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100

£m

5,269
653

5,922
2,336
(1,502)

6,756

2010*

%

77
10

87
35
(22)

100

* Capital as reported to FSA. Numbers may vary slightly to those reported in Annual Report and Accounts 2010.

In the medium term, the Group has further first calls on debt 
instruments amounting to £656 million in 2015, £500 million 
maturing in 2016 and a $750 million retail preferred 
instrument, which is callable quarterly. In 2020, the Group 
has a call on a further £350 million instrument. The £500 
million 10-year bond issued in June 2011 matures in 2021.

Liquidity
In April 2011, we renewed the Group’s bank facilities by 
negotiating a five-year, £1.2 billion, syndicated revolving 
credit facility, which was strongly supported by 17 banks.

At 31 December 2011, the Group had available cash and 
undrawn committed facilities of £1.5 billion (2010: £1.4 
billion). Of this, cash on hand at the holding company was 
£0.4 billion (2010: £0.4 billion); a proportion of this was used 
to settle the remaining €200 million repayment of the €750 
million euro bond in January 2012.

We anticipate that the use of £1.1 billion of the net proceeds 
from the disposal of the Nordic business to reduce 
indebtedness will allow Old Mutual to retain an increased 
proportion of cash flows generated from operational activity 
and other corporate actions. This will enhance Old Mutual’s 
capital flexibility and liquidity going forward.

In addition to the cash and available resources referred to 
above at the holding company, each of the individual 
businesses also maintains liquidity to support its normal 
trading operations. During the year a total of £84 million 
(R938 million) of special and ordinary dividends were paid 
by M&F under its revised capital management strategy. 
Nedbank paid £120 million of cash dividends to the South 
African holding company entities and, following the 
preliminary results for Nedbank announced on 29 February 
2012, further cash dividends for 2011 of R891 million 
(equivalent to £71 million at 31 December closing rate) are 
expected to be paid to the South African holding company 
in April 2012.

At a Group holding company level, net inflows from 
businesses improved from £433 million in 2010 to £684 
million in 2011. The inflow in the year included remittances 
arising from the sale of US Life of £288 million. There was 
a net outflow of £57 million from the parent company to 
Bermuda relating to the repayment of inter-company loans. 
Holding company expenses and interest costs increased 
predominantly as a result of a non-recurrence of the stamp 
duty reserve tax refund received in 2010. The holding 
company made ordinary dividend payments in the year of 
£48 million and offered a scrip dividend election. The £321 
million of negative other movements in 2010 resulted 
primarily from the tightening of credit spreads and the 
weakening pound increasing the value of Group IFRS  
debt in sterling terms; this was not repeated to the same 
extent in 2011.

Financial Groups Directive results
The Group’s regulatory capital surplus, calculated under the 
EU Financial Groups Directive (FGD), at 31 December 2011 
was £2.0 billion. Following the notice given to the FSA of the 
right to call the remaining €200 million of the €750 million 
euro bond that was partially redeemed in July 2011, we 
followed the FSA’s requirements and excluded the 
instrument from the regulatory capital surplus calculations 
at 31 December 2011. If this instrument had been included 
in the calculation the surplus would have been £2.2 billion, 
and on a like-for-like basis the surplus was £2.4 billion at 31 
December 2010 and £1.5 billion at 31 December 2009. The 
reported £2.0 billion FGD surplus represented a coverage 
ratio of 155%, compared to 146% at 31 December 2010. 
The Group comfortably met the recent stress tests required 
under the EU-wide Solvency II project.

The like-for-like decrease since 31 December 2010 was 
primarily a result of the impact of the US Life sale 
(approximately £100 million), the weakening of the rand, the 
payment of Group ordinary and preferred dividends and the 
redemption of subordinated debt offset by statutory profits 
in Emerging Markets and Nedbank and the issue of the 
£500 million bond in June.

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Reconciliation of Group AOP and IFRS profits

Adjusted operating profit 

Adjusting items
Non-core operations (including Bermuda**)

Profit before tax (net of policyholder tax)
Income tax attributable to policyholder returns

Profit before tax
Total tax expense 

Profit from continuing operations after tax 
Profit/(loss) from discontinued operations after tax

Profit/(loss) after tax for the financial year
Other comprehensive income

Total comprehensive income

Attributable to
Equity holders of the parent
Non-controlling interests
  Ordinary shares
  Preferred securities

Total non-controlling interests

Total comprehensive income

2011

1,515

(329)
(183)

1,003
(9)

994
(225)

769
198

967
(1,400)

(433)

(408)

(25)

(433)

(87)
62

£m

2010*

1,371

(392)
15

994
101

1,095
(391)

704
(728)

(24)
1,151

1,127

594

428
105

533

1,127

*  The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued.
** Non-core operations relates to Bermuda with the exception of £17 million of inter-segment revenue and expenses.

The proposed Nordic sale will increase the Group’s FGD 
surplus by about £1.5 billion on completion, before the 
payment of the special dividend and the planned  
repayment of debt.

The Group’s FGD surplus is calculated using the ‘deduction 
and aggregation’ method, which determines the Group’s 
capital resources less the Group’s capital resources 
requirement. Group capital resources is the sum of all the 
business units’ net capital resources, calculated as each 
business unit’s stand-alone capital resources less the book 
value of the Group’s investment; the Group capital 
resources requirement is the sum of all the business units’ 
capital requirements. The contribution made by each 
business unit to the Group’s regulatory surplus will, 
therefore, be different from its locally reported surplus since 
the latter is determined without the deduction for the book 
value of the Group’s investment. Thus, although all the 
Group’s major business units have robust local solvency 
surpluses, a number of them do not make a positive 
contribution to the Group’s FGD position. The Group 
regulatory capital was calculated in line with the FSA’s 
prudential guidelines.

The Group’s subsidiary businesses continue to have strong 
local statutory capital cover. There was a small decrease in 
cover for the UK business following the purchase of two 
entities from the parent and the conversion of a loan to the 
parent to a dividend. Nordic also saw a decrease in cover 
with the old Skandia UK holding company paid up to the 
parent as a dividend. 

Exposure to sovereign debt in Portugal, Italy, 
Ireland, Greece, Spain and France
The Group’s direct exposure to the sovereign debt of 
Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain remains very low. 
At December 2011, the Group had less than £2 million of 
exposure to bonds issued by the Italian Government and no 
exposure to the debt issued by the Greek, Irish, Portuguese 
or Spanish governments. The exposure to French sovereign 
debt was £2 million.

Corporate disposals and acquisitions and 
related party transactions
During 2011 and the early part of 2012, we have continued 
to focus on streamlining the Old Mutual business to focus 
on key competencies, competitive strength and operational 
improvements. In the 2011 interim results, we reported the 
completion of the sale of US Life, the closure to new 
business of our Retail Europe Swiss business and the 
proposed legal transfer of some of our emerging markets 
businesses to accord with their operational management.

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GROUP FINANCE  
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
CONTINUED

Since then we have taken further steps to simplify the 
business structure. In addition to the proposed Nordic sale,  
we have also announced the sale of Wealth Management’s 
Finnish branch and a number of USAM affiliates.

Statutory results 
Adjusting items
The key adjusting items for 2011 excluded from AOP but 
included in IFRS profits were:

The sale of the Finnish branch was announced in 
December 2011. The transaction is subject to regulatory 
approvals and other customary conditions and is expected 
to close by the end of H1 2012.

The new management team at USAM has taken steps to 
refine strategy and refocus the business. As part of that 
effort, several affiliate firms have been or are being divested 
to improve USAM’s longer-term financial performance and 
move towards the margin targets announced to the market 
in 2010.

 ■ In September 2011, USAM announced the sale of 

Lincluden Management to its existing management 
team. The sale was completed in December 2011.

 ■ In October 2011, USAM announced the sale of OMCAP,  
its US Retail affiliate, to Touchstone Investments. The 
sale is expected to close in H1 2012. USAM will 
continue to act in a sub-advisory capacity and retain a 
substantial portion of the assets under management. 
Through the transaction USAM will dispose of its retail 
administration centre in Denver and the significant costs 
associated with it.

 ■ On 7 February 2012, we announced the sale of Dwight 

Asset Management to Goldman Sachs Asset 
Management. Subject to certain conditions, the sale is 
expected to be completed in Q2 2012. Dwight managed 
$30.7 billion of FUM at 31 December 2011, largely of 
stable-value asset mandates.

Subject to the approval of the relevant authorities in South 
Africa and Zimbabwe, the legal transfer of the ownership of 
the Zimbabwean business from Old Mutual Zimbabwe 
Limited to Old Mutual Africa Holdings and to local 
Zimbabweans, including staff and pensioners, as part of 
Old Mutual’s response to Zimbabwean indigenisation 
legislation, is expected to be completed in H1 2012.

 ■ A £264 million goodwill impairment charge for the 

USAM business, resulting from a reduction in growth-
rate assumptions reflecting the outlook for US nominal 
GDP growth and net cash outflows experienced by 
USAM in 2011. The impairment charge has been 
partially offset by a reduction in the risk-adjusted 
discount rate

 ■ A £129 million charge in respect of other acquisition 

accounting adjustments relating to Skandia (mainly the 
amortisation of acquired present value of in-force 
business)

 ■ A £171 million charge for short-term fluctuations in 
investment return, largely as a result of Wealth 
Management policyholder tax and lower returns on 
cash and bonds

 ■ A £249 million profit for the African businesses in 

Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland and Nigeria under 
the control of Emerging Markets. Following a period of 
greater political and currency stability in Zimbabwe and 
an expectation that the Group will be able to extract 
benefits from its Zimbabwean business, the Group’s 
Zimbabwean business has been consolidated for the 
first time together with operations in Kenya, Malawi, 
Swaziland and Nigeria. The acquisition has been 
accounted for at the net asset value of the underlying 
businesses at 1 January 2011, being the fair value of the 
Group’s investment in these operations for the assets 
and liabilities acquired. Deemed consideration for the 
acquisition is the fair value of the Group’s investment 
immediately prior to control. The result was a gain for 
the Group in these businesses that is accounted for  
as a profit on acquisition in the year. This profit has  
been excluded from adjusted operating profit. The 
trading results of the other African businesses for the 
year ended 31 December 2011 have been included  
in the Group’s income statement and adjusted  
operating profit.

Income tax attributable to policyholder returns
Under IFRS, tax on policyholder investment returns is 
included in the Group’s IFRS tax charge rather than 
being offset against the related income. The impact is 
to increase IFRS profit before tax, with a corresponding 
increase to the IFRS tax charge. In 2011, policyholder 
investment return generated a tax credit of £9 million 
(2010 restated to exclude Nordic: £101 million charge) 
due mainly to a credit in Wealth Management offsetting 
a charge in Emerging Markets.

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The 2011 AOP result benefited from the structural tax 
efficiency applicable to UK companies writing unit-linked 
business in the UK, together with the smoothing of 
previous years’ deferred tax assets. These assets arose 
in 2008/09 from the significant market volatility where falls 
in the value of policyholder assets resulted in the recognition 
of significant deferred tax assets in the IFRS income 
statement, which were spread forward under AOP. The  
final pre-tax smoothing adjustment in respect of previous 
years’ deferred tax assets made in 2011 gave rise to a profit 
of £32 million, a significant reduction from £76 million in 
2010. Going forward, we expect the structural tax efficiency 
to continue.

We have developed our economic capital models to meet 
Solvency II requirements in our integrated Capital, Risk and 
Finance Transformation (iCRaFT) project. These models 
were embedded during the period and will add value to risk 
decision-making by formally quantifying risk exposures, 
and hence ensuring that decision-making is better 
informed. We conducted the recent European Insurance 
and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) stress test 
on a Fifth Quantitative Impact Study (QIS5) basis and this 
showed a comfortable level of solvency over the Group’s 
Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) floor. In the tests there 
was no scenario when the Group’s capital reduced below 
the SCR level.

Total tax expense
The effective tax rate on AOP was 23% (2010: 24%, 
restated to exclude Nordic). The decrease from 2010 
was due to fewer unutilised tax losses, partially offset 
by increased Secondary Tax on Companies (STC) on 
dividends from South Africa and a decreased proportion 
of low-taxed dividend and capital profits. In addition, no 
further strengthening of provisions was required in 2011.

Looking forward, and depending on market conditions and 
profit mix, we would expect the effective tax rate on AOP in 
future periods to tend towards 25% to 27%. 

Other comprehensive income
Other comprehensive income for the year was a loss of 
£1,400 million driven by unrealised foreign exchange losses, 
primarily from the translation impact of the lower year-end 
rand to sterling exchange rate on the net asset value of the 
South African businesses.

Non-controlling interests 
Non-controlling interests’ share of total comprehensive 
income was a £25 million loss (2010: £533 million profit), 
reflecting non-controlling interests’ share of the unrealised 
losses generated on the translation of Nedbank.

Risk allocation, Solvency II and iCRaFT and 
financial controls initiative update 
The Group’s economic capital models form the basis of 
the risk appetite and limit-setting framework. Our economic 
capital approach applies market-consistent valuation 
methodologies and assumption-setting processes to 
ensure that risk appetite and exposures are based on a 
risk-neutral benchmark. This approach adds value by 
ensuring that the Group makes explicit decisions regarding 
risk when writing new business and in the management  
of the in-force book. We believe that this disciplined 
approach facilitated better risk acceptance decisions  
during the period.

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regulatory capital position under Solvency II are:

 ■ Discussions on the treatment of EPIFP (Expected Profits 
In Future Premiums) have moved in a positive direction 
and we believe they are likely to be eligible as Tier 1 
capital under Solvency II

 ■ Bermuda was included in the first of three groups of 

non-EEA jurisdiction equivalence assessments. EIOPA’s 
findings from this assessment were inconclusive and 
will be revisited this year. The equivalence of South 
Africa will be reviewed in 2012 as part of the second 
group of assessments

 ■ The latest draft regulations have suggested that a 

short contract boundary may be applied to some of the 
Group’s long-term unit-linked insurance business. We 
believe this proposal is not aligned with an economic 
balance sheet valuation of this business and we have 
raised concerns about this definition with the FSA and 
other bodies.

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and Capital Management can  
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GROUP FINANCE  
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
CONTINUED

Regulatory changes in the UK – the Retail Distribution 
Review (RDR) and Solvency II – are likely to have significant 
effects on the industry as a whole. The RDR has continued 
to provide opportunities for the UK Platform to grow, but 
may accelerate the run-off of the more profitable legacy 
book. UK Platforms are expecting margins to be squeezed 
both in the lead-up to RDR and afterwards. The 
implementation of Solvency II requirements continues to 
occupy the industry and there is still uncertainty about both 
the implementation timetable and the details of the directive, 
particularly the issue of contract boundaries, which could 
materially affect our Solvency II position. 

We monitor the external factors and uncertainties, such as 
market and regulatory developments that could adversely 
affect our ability to create value and continue meeting the 
capital requirements and day-to-day liquidity needs of the 
Group and individual entities. Overall risk trends are going 
down and Old Mutual is in a solid position to withstand the 
threat of further economic recession. In this respect we 
compare favourably to our peers; this is reflected in our 
Solvency II capital requirement, which we believe is less 
demanding than those faced by some of our peers. The 
risks we face in our Bermuda business, although significant, 
are being effectively managed and closely monitored.

We continue to strengthen and embed our risk 
management framework. We attach increasing importance 
to ensuring business decisions are within our risk appetite, 
and that risk exposures are monitored against appetite, 
allocated limits and budgets. 

The Board of Directors believe that the Group has adequate 
resources to continue in operational existence for the 
foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the 
going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.

Philip Broadley
Group Finance Director 
9 March 2012

In addition to delivering the economic capital model 
developments, the iCRaFT project is progressing well on 
embedding Pillar I, II and III. We are working towards a 
submission to the FSA’s internal model approval process 
and are on track to deliver all requirements for Solvency II 
compliance. We were the first major UK retail group to 
submit Group QIS5 results and the self-assessment 
questionnaire on the internal model to the FSA. In 2011,  
we formally entered a ‘use test’ phase, using an internally 
developed Use Framework to translate Solvency II 
requirements into practical business applications and to 
provide a structured approach in assessing use across the 
Group. Development and embedding of the Own Risk and 
Solvency Assessment (ORSA) processes is progressing 
alongside the Use Framework and continued development 
of enterprise risk management, bringing further insight to 
key risk decisions.

In 2011 we embedded our internal financial controls 
framework across the Group. The control framework  
is designed to mitigate the risk of material misstatement  
in the Group’s financial reporting. The control environment 
continues to be assessed by management to ensure there 
is reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial 
reporting and the preparation of financial information across 
all the relevant reporting units.

Risks and uncertainties 
A number of potential risks and uncertainties could have  
a material impact on Group performance and cause  
actual results to differ materially from expected and 
historical results.

During 2011, global economic activity weakened against 
initial expectations and became more uneven, confidence 
fell sharply, and downside risks grew. Against a backdrop  
of unresolved structural fragilities, a number of shocks hit 
the international economy, including the devastating 
Japanese earthquake and tsunami, unrest in some 
oil-producing countries and the major financial turbulence  
in the eurozone. Two of the forces now shaping the global 
economy are high and rising commodity prices and the 
need for many economies to address large budget deficits. 
Financial volatility has increased drastically at the year end, 
driven by concerns about developments in the eurozone 
and the strength of global activity. 

Southern Africa and Emerging Markets generally have 
strong GDP growth, increasing population sizes, a growing 
middle class, stable unemployment levels and moderate 
inflation. The impact of the financial crisis on these 
economies was generally less severe than in the more 
developed countries. However, the current economic 
environment remains a threat with unstable and volatile 
equity markets, currency risk and unemployment 
challenges – particularly in South Africa.

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Risk and Responsibility

 Risk and capital management

There has been significant investment in risk and 
capital management at Old Mutual over the past two 
years. This has been sponsored from the top of the 
organisation, at both Executive and Board level, and 
driven through the new Group operating model and  
a Group-wide project iCRaFT (integrated Capital 
Risk and Finance Transformation). The Group’s 
Board Risk Committee which was established in 
2010 has overseen these developments in risk 
management including setting the risk appetite 
limits and monitoring the Group’s risk profile.

We are now at a stage where the new operating model  
and risk management at Old Mutual is embedded in our 
businesses, and iCRaFT is becoming part of business  
as usual. Risk frameworks, governance and the Group’s 
internal capital model are designed and overseen centrally 
but implemented by our global businesses locally. This is 
reinforced through senior Group Executive representation  
in the local business unit boards coupled with a formalised 
dual reporting for all key control functions. 

In 2010 we set out the Group’s risk strategy and stated risk 
preferences. This has guided the business strategy and 
planning processes for the business units and the Group. 
We have clear risk appetite limits representing economic 
capital, cash flow and earnings at risk as well as operational 
risk and the business performance is monitored against 
these limits. This is used by the Remuneration Committee 
as a factor in determining incentive payments.

We are well placed for the forthcoming regulatory changes 
under Solvency II and the South African equivalent Solvency 
Assessment and Management (SAM). We have an internal 
capital model which delivered the first results in June 2011, 
our risk, capital and liquidity policies and processes have 
been enhanced and we have much greater line of sight on 
the key risks in the businesses and how these interact. In 
particular there is now centralised sign-off of all new 
products which contain guarantees using risk-based capital 
metrics, and prior approval for any significant changes to 
the business unit risk profile. The risks in the Bermuda 
business, in run-off, remain significant but these are well 
known and very actively managed and monitored. 

The remainder of this section of the report is intended to 
provide a more granular understanding of our target and 
actual risk profile, together with a description of each of  
the key risks. The full description of risk and governance 
framework is provided on the website. Given the modelling 
process involved, the data in this report is at 30 June 2011.

We have clear risk appetite 
limits representing 
economic capital, cash flow 
and earnings at risk as well 
as operational risk and the 
business performance is 
monitored against these 
limits.
Sue Kean
Chief Risk Officer

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Risk profile – current and target
When we set out the Group’s risk strategy and preferences 
in 2010 we distinguished between the risk and the return 
preferences. The Group’s risk preferences outline our 
position on different risk types, identifying the risks that we 
actively seek, avoid or view neutrally. The return preferences 
are driven by the probability and size of the returns. This is 
intended to serve as a guide to steer the medium-term 
planning cycle and hence implementing these preferences 
will take time. For more information on these, please visit 
the Risk section on the Group website.

The current and target risk profile of the Group is shown  
in the pie charts. A comparison of the actual profile in 2011 
compared to the profile in 2010 is shown in the table 
underneath. The introduction of our Solvency II model 
during 2011 means that the data for 2011 includes some 
modelling changes. The current and target risk profiles are 
drawn on a standalone basis, allowing for no diversification 
of risks within or between business units or risk types – for 
example, UK business risk is not balanced against UK 
operational risk. 

In 2011 the sale of US Life significantly reduced the 
proportion of credit risk in the Group. The profile has not yet 
been adjusted to reflect the proposed sale of Nordic. One  
of the priorities for 2012 will be to revisit the target risk profile 
and consequent risk strategy in the light of changes in the 
composition of the Group. 

Group’s Target Risk Profile* 

■ Market (Policyholder) 
■
■ Business 
■ Credit Other 
■ Currency 
■ Liability 
■ Market (Shareholder) 
■ Operational 

%

34
23
12
4
15
5
7

* This includes all business written in the Group at June 2011.
  The target profile in the 2010 Accounts did not include Nedbank.

Current Risk Profile (June 2011) 

■ Market (Policyholder) 
■
■ Business 
■ Credit Other 
■ Currency 
■ Liability 
■ Market (Shareholder) 
■ Operational 

%

27
25
13
5
13
6
11

The table below shows the progress the Group made since the risk strategy and target risk profile was rolled out:

2010 vs 2011

Risk Category

Market (Policyholder)

Credit and Other

Business

Target 
profile

Risk preference

2010 
  profile

2011 
  profile

  34%

For

  26%

  27%

  12%

Against*

  22%

  13%

  23%

Neutral

  24%

  25%

Market (Shareholder)***

5%

Against

  15%

Strongly for**

4%

8%

6%

  13%

7%

4%

Strongly against

  12%

  11%

Against

4%

5%

*  Unless taken in the form of well-governed and managed banking-related credit risk 
**  Assumes risk is correctly priced 
***  This was referred to as ALM risk in the 2010 Accounts

Liability

Operational

Currency

  Marginal impact  
  of extra exposure  
on economic  
  capital at a Group  
level (BU=100%)

Expected return  
relative to  
target

86%

64%

47%

78%

11%

42%

81%

Excellent

Neutral

Good

Poor

Excellent

Very poor

Poor

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Risk and Responsibility

 Risk and capital management
CONTINUEd

The business plans for 2011 specifically targeted a 
reduction in business and operational risk, whilst seeking  
to take on more liability and market risk where properly 
priced, for example through more protection products or 
guarantees. The Market (Policyholder) risk category includes 
the ALM risk from guarantee business. This remains a central 
tenet of the Long-Term Savings (LTS) product development 
strategy. The increase shown above for liability risk appears 
greater than is the case, as the economic capital figures are 
expressed in terms of % of the total and hence the reduction 
in credit risk has increased the % for all other risk areas. 

There have also been some changes in the classification and 
modelling methodology as we have moved to the Solvency II 
model for June 2011 results production. 

Our exposure to operational risk has come down as we 
have reduced geographical spread and business lines, 
however, there is still work to do to achieve our target 
exposure. Over the course of 2011 we have rolled out a  
new enterprise risk management methodology and system 
for measuring operational risk losses. This greater focus  
and measurement has enhanced our ability to manage 
operational risk and the risk appetite targets are set to 
reduce this risk type over time.

Our exposure to other risk types are generally in line with  
our target profile. Reported exposure to these risk types are 
expected to move marginally from year to year as the model 
refinements are made and the effect of interactions with other 
risk types changes.

Looking forward, the Group will continue to manage towards 
the stated target risk profile. This will be driven by the products 
we sell (greater focus on protection business in Europe) as well 
as our focus on strong enterprise risk management (in 
particular managing our exposure to operational risk).

Understanding and identifying significant risks 
to Old Mutual 
Our business is affected by numerous uncertainties, some  
of which are potential threats but can also be seen as 
opportunities if we make the right value-enhancing decisions. 
The section below defines the major risk types and 
summarises the actions we adopt to mitigate the risks  
and optimise the opportunities that they present.

Risk type and potential  
threat or uncertainty

Group mitigating actions and 
opportunities

Business unit management actions 
and opportunities

Business risk
The main business risk the Group is 
exposed to is the risk of poor persistency 
or retention of customers, resulting in 
income not covering the expense base 
that was assumed at the time of writing 
the business. High lapse rates and upfront 
costs are key risk drivers in this category. 

This risk category also incorporates the 
risk of unsatisfactory new business 
margins, driven by volume and business 
mix; persistency experience losses driven 
by regulatory changes; poor client 
administrative service; or economic- 
driven client behaviours.

The June 2011 business risk economic 
capital split allows for diversification both 
within business risk and between 
business risk and other risk categories.

Business risk 

 ■ Quarterly Group-led reviews with each 
business unit ensuring regular dialogue 
and oversight of business performance

 ■ Business risk is monitored against 

market consistent embedded value 
(MCEV) experience variances and, 
where appropriate, actions are agreed 
to mitigate negative trends

 ■ Lapse rates and persistency 

information are monitored through 
experience investigations

 ■ Within the Group, we examine the 
impact on earnings and capital by 
stress testing both increased and 
decreased new business volumes to 
understand these impacts

 ■ Old Mutual is well diversified across 
geographies and product lines, 
minimising the impact of sector- or 
territory-specific economic downturns

%

 ■ The key mitigation for product design 
and approval is the review process 
conducted by the LTS product teams 
and by the Group Actuarial team.

Product design in the LTS businesses 
ensures technically sound pricing and 
structures whilst positioning the product 
correctly in difficult market conditions. 
Risk-adjusted profit signatures and 
improved persistency are key features 
of the product strategy.

Business risk is a significant risk on 
unit-linked and asset management 
business which is materially exposed to 
market, credit or insurance risk:

 ■ Wealth Management, Nordic and Retail 
Europe manage significant unit-linked 
portfolios. While these risks are 
important in Emerging Markets, they 
represent a lower proportion of 
overall risk

 ■ Nedbank Group actively manages 

business risk through its management 
structures and an earnings-at-risk 
methodology similar to the Group’s 
risk appetite metrics.

■

■

■

■ Lapse/Persistency 
Banking Business  
Expense Level 
Expense Inflation 
Asset Management Business  
Retained Rebates 
New Business 

■

■

■

43
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threat or uncertainty

Group mitigating actions and 
opportunities

Business unit management actions 
and opportunities

Market (Policyholder) risk 
The impact of market movements  
on policyholder assets and liabilities 
covers mismatches of assets relative to 
liabilities. Also the impact of a change in 
fund-related management fees earned 
from client portfolios as a consequence  
of movements in asset markets.

The June 2011 market (policyholder) 
risk economic capital split allows for 
diversification both within market risk 
and between market risk and other 
risk categories.

Market (Policyholder) Risk 

%

■ Equity 

■

■

■

■

Volatility 
Yield Curve 
Property 
Hedge Effectiveness  

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 ■ Business units exposed to downside 

market risk are required to take account 
of the structure of their asset and 
liability portfolios, the local regulatory 
environment and Group policies 

 ■ Risk management strategies designed 
to mitigate market risk are tailored to 
the type of contracts sold. Where 
contracts are related purely to longevity, 
mortality and morbidity risk, there is 
typically no sharing of better-than-
expected or required investment 
returns. Under unit-linked and/or 
market-linked contracts, policyholders 
receive the full investment return on the 
underlying assets, less any applicable 
fees, and the only residual market risk 
relates to variation in asset-based fees 
as a result of fluctuations in the 
underlying assets 

 ■ In most other classes of investment-
related contracts, investment returns 
are attributed to, or shared with, 
policyholders in the form of vesting and/
or non-vesting bonuses. Non-vesting 
bonuses offer an option for 
management action, as they can be 
withheld in adverse circumstances

 ■ The Bermuda business, in run-off, is 
subject to substantial market risk due 
to the nature of the guarantees in the 
products. The risks are monitored on a 
daily basis and we are subject to a 
dynamic hedging programme which is 
governed by the Group Oversight 
Committee, comprising Group and 
Bermuda Board members.

 ■ Some of our life assurance products 
contain investment guarantees and 
options. A reduction in interest rates 
and equity markets can cause options 
to be in-the-money, with a potentially 
adverse impact on profit

 ■ We manage market (policyholder) risk 

through asset-liability matching, interest 
rate swaps and hedges, equity hedges, 
and currency swaps, borrowings and 
forward foreign exchange contracts to 
mitigate currency risk 

 ■ Smooth bonus products constitute a 

significant proportion of the South African 
business. We pay particular attention to 
declaring bonuses in a responsible 
manner, to meet our promise to clients 
that returns will be less volatile over time 
than purely market-linked returns. Net 
investment returns not distributed are 
credited to bonus-smoothing reserves to 
support consistent bonus declarations 
when markets are low

 ■ When investing shareholders’ funds, we 

address equity price risks through 
investment policies which tightly limit the 
extent of investment in equities or equity 
funds. As a result, the shareholder assets 
invested to back the statutory capital 
requirements of each legal entity in the 
Group are predominantly invested in 
sovereign bonds and cash, hence 
exposure of shareholder assets to 
market risk is relatively small overall.

Other practices include: 

 ■ Our Principles and Practices of 

Financial Management govern the 
management of discretionary 
participating contracts in South Africa, 
including bonus-sharing rules and 
management actions to be taken in 
adverse conditions 

 ■ Stock selection and investment analysis 

are supported by a well-developed 
research function 

 ■ In our investment guidelines asset-
liability duration matching is used 
for fixed annuities, especially 
where specific guarantees apply. 
Other non-profit policies are also 
suitably matched 

 ■ Market risk on with-profit policies, 
where investment risk is shared 
with investors, is mitigated by 
appropriate bonus declaration 
practices and hedging 

 ■ Interest rate and equity hedging are 
used where movements can lead to 
an increase in the value of investment 
guarantees/options, causing a 
reduction in earnings and shareholder 
capital. We have implemented an 
Internal Economic Scenario Generator 
in South Africa, which allows us to 
dynamically hedge our interest rate 
and equity exposures.

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 Risk and capital management
CONTINUEd

Risk type and potential  
threat or uncertainty

Group mitigating actions and 
opportunities

Business unit management actions 
and opportunities

Credit risk 
The Group is exposed to the risk of credit 
defaults. This includes counterparty risk 
where an asset is not repaid in 
accordance with the terms of the contract.

Credit risk also encompasses lending risk 
(for instance in our banking businesses), 
where a borrower becomes unable to 
repay outstanding balances. 

Client defaults on financial guarantee 
obligations are also an element of 
credit risk.

The Group’s credit risk policy, limits 
and reporting systems have recently 
been reviewed. 

 ■ We have introduced improvements to 
allow us to adopt a more dynamic and 
timely approach to identifying and 
managing credit risk exposures 

The Group Credit Risk Policy sets out  
the principles and mandatory minimum 
standards for the management of credit 
and counterparty risk across the Old 
Mutual Group, which include: 

 ■ The credit risk the business is willing  

to accept

 ■ The Group only deals with approved 

 ■ The current credit risk profile and 

counterparties and, where appropriate, 
obtains sufficient collateral as a means 
of mitigating the financial loss from 
defaults. We continuously monitor the 
credit ratings of counterparties.

exposure to credit risk concentrations

 ■ The future target credit risk profile and 
credit risk limits that comply with the 
business risk appetite.

Exposure by Sector 
December 2011 

■ Retail 

■

■

■

■

■

Financials 
Industrials 
All Industries 
Government 
Other 

%

29
23
10
10
7
21

The Group’s exposure to the European 
peripheral economies is not deemed 
significant and is primarily to highly-rated 
institutions. At the time of writing this 
report, the Group has less than £2 million 
exposure to the sovereign debt of 
European peripheral economies; the 
exposure has been reduced over the 
course of the last year from £10 million. 
We intend to maintain our exposures at 
low levels and to continue monitoring 
developments in this region.

Credit exposure was reduced by  
£11.5 billion as a result of the sale of  
US Life.

As our primary banking business, 
Nedbank carries the majority of our credit 
risk through its lending and other financing 
activities. Nedbank’s financing activities 
contribute to its significant credit risk 
exposure. We expect impairment levels 
to remain stable or even start to reduce 
during 2012. This is due to a number of 
factors including a slowdown in lending, 
the introduction of tighter lending criteria 
and the stabilisation of economic 
conditions.

Increasing activity in the unsecured 
personal loans within Old Mutual 
Emerging Markets, from the Mass 
Foundation Cluster, is subject to Group 
standards and risk assessment.

With the consolidation in 2011 of the 
Zimbabwean businesses into Old Mutual 
Emerging Markets, came the local 
banking business called CABS. This 
business will also be subject to complying 
and rolling out Group standards and 
policies within 2012.

Nedbank manages credit risk exposures 
through its credit risk management 
framework, which encompasses 
comprehensive credit policies, limits, 
governance structures and internal risk 
models that are fully Basel II compliant 
and in line with Group policies and 
practices. To address the changing 
conditions impacting on credit risk this 
year, Nedbank has:

 ■ Closely monitored credit risk loss ratios 
and other key indicators through its 
credit risk monitoring committees 

 ■ Tightened credit granting criteria – 
for example, on home loans it has 
tightened loan-to-value criteria, 
increased acceptance standards and 
where appropriate, restructured credit 
risk agreements

 ■ Tightened controls over large payments 

to and from global banks 

 ■ Increased staff to administer collections.

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Risk type and potential  
threat or uncertainty

Group mitigating actions and 
opportunities

Business unit management actions 
and opportunities

Liability risk 
The Group assumes liability risk by issuing 
insurance contracts under which it agrees 
to compensate the policyholder or other 
beneficiary if a specified uncertain future 
event affecting the policyholder occurs. 
This risk includes mortality and morbidity 
risk in the LTS business units and a risk of 
loss from events such as fire or accident 
in Mutual & Federal (M&F), our general 
insurance business unit. 

The June 2011 liability risk diversified 
economic capital allows for diversification 
both within liability risk and between 
liability risk and other risk categories.

Liability Risk 

%

■

■

■ Mortality 
Disability 
Mortality Catastrophe 
Longevity 
Disability Catastrophe 
Non-Life Liability 

■

■

■

43
16
16
12
11
2

We manage liability risk by:

 ■ Writing a mix of business over 
multiple insurance classes and 
geographical segments. Business 
that is weakly correlated with liability 
risk (eg unit-linked business) provides 
a hedge against liability risk due to a 
diversification effect

 ■ Using sophisticated management 
information systems which provide 
current data on the risks to which 
we are exposed

 ■ Calculating premiums and monitoring 

claims patterns using actuarial 
models based on past experience 
and statistical methods

 ■ In our underwriting policy, we specify 
Group requirements for concluding 
insurance contracts and assuming 
liability risks

 ■ Using reinsurance to limit exposure to 
large single claims and catastrophes 
and increase our insurance capacity

 ■ Building an effective mix of assets that 
back insurance liabilities based on the 
nature and term of those liabilities.

Incorrect pricing bases give rise 
to underwriting risk. The business 
units with significant liability risk are 
Emerging Markets and M&F.

 ■ In Emerging Markets the relatively 

weak correlation of liability risk with 
our other risk types reduces our 
exposure after diversification over 
several insurance classes and a 
number of geographical segments

 ■ Maintenance and use of sophisticated 
management information systems 
which provide current data on the 
risks to which we are exposed

 ■ Use of actuarial models to calculate 

premiums and monitor claims 
patterns using past experience and 
statistical methods

 ■ Guidelines for concluding insurance 

contracts and assuming liability risks, 
such as underwriting principles and 
product pricing procedures

 ■ Reinsurance to limit our exposure  

to large single claims and catastrophes

 ■ An effective mix of assets that back 
insurance liabilities based on those 
liabilities’ nature and term

 ■ A key change project for M&F in 2011 
has been to implement new, best-
practice underwriting standards and 
processes in the underwriting 
division, which will enhance deal 
approval processes and risk-based 
pricing methodology

 ■ Reinsurance plays an extremely 

important role in the management  
of liability risk and exposure at M&F.

Note: the term ‘insurance risks’ is defined, for accounting purposes, as the risks other than financial risk that influence the insurance liabilities 
associated with insurance contracts as detailed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements on page 138. For life assurance business 
these arise through exposure to unfavourable claims experience on life assurance, critical illness and other protection business and exposure 
to unfavourable operating experience in respect of factors such as persistency levels and management expenses. For general insurance it 
also includes the risk of loss from fire, accident or other claim source. These risks are included within the liability risk and business risk 
categories described.

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Risk and Responsibility

 Risk and capital management
CONTINUEd

Risk type and potential  
threat or uncertainty 

Group mitigating actions and 
opportunities

Business unit management actions 
and opportunities

Operational risk 
The risk arising from operational activities, 
for example a failure of a major systems, 
or losses incurred as a consequence of 
people and or process failures, including 
external events. Specific examples 
include our ability to attract and retain key 
staff with the necessary skills to help the 
Group meet its objectives, and adequate 
protection of people, premises and data 
(including IT sustainability and 
infrastructure).

Operational loss is inherent to our 
business and difficult to eliminate entirely. 
However, by using sensitive indicative 
triggers we can respond to events 
before they occur.

 ■ We developed the RCSA process 
significantly during 2011, and the 
increased quality and quantity of data 
has enabled more granular review of 
operational risk across the Group 

 ■ Operational risk is one of the driving 

 ■ Following appropriate training and 

strengthening local risk teams across 
the Group, we are beginning to realise 
the benefits of a consistent, Group-
wide RCSA process. The data has 
enhanced our Board risk reports 
and supports a more effective 
capital model.

metrics in our risk appetite framework. 
Our appetite for operational risk is to 
continually reduce exposure from 
events that we are able to manage 
and control

 ■ We continue to focus on areas where 
we can add value for shareholders 
– reducing operational risk losses that 
directly impact profits, refining our risk 
categorisation model to enable more 
accurate and consistent reporting of 
events across the Group, and using 
more advanced mathematical 
concepts to translate data inputs 
into capital amounts 

 ■ Both Risk and Control Self Assessment 
(RCSA) and internal risk events are 
used to validate the accuracy of 
scenarios used in our Advanced 
Management Approach to operational 
risk capital modelling

 ■ OpenPages, our risk management tool, 
is widely used throughout the Group 
– helping businesses to understand 
operational risk better, ensure there 
are no repeatedly occurring inherent 
weaknesses, and enhance the 
control framework. 

The table on next page gives a breakdown 
of the Group’s principal operational risks.

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The principal operational risks we face are listed below. 

Risk description

2011 commentary

Key mitigations

Regulatory and tax risk 
Regulatory requirements continue  
to evolve, with a range of new prudential 
and business conduct regulations coming 
to fruition over the next couple of years. 
Business conduct regulation continues to 
evolve with a greater focus on customer 
protection, and compliance with all 
aspects of tax legislation is becoming 
increasingly complex as the system of 
taxation continues to change.

Solvency II and its South African 
equivalent, SAM, are both currently 
planned to come into effect at the start 
of 2014. Additional risk also arises in 
relation to responsibilities for reporting 
routine customer, employee and other 
transactions to the tax authorities and 
adherence to processing risk procedures 
is important.

We need to correctly assess the impact 
of these changes and respond to them 
in a timely manner to efficiently manage 
regulatory required capital. 

This could translate into lower returns to 
shareholders or being unable to provide 
customers with products at a price which 
is acceptable to them, thereby restricting 
our business opportunities.

In addition to the risk of a fine, penalty 
or regulatory censure, non-compliance 
carries a growing risk of regulatory 
intervention that could impact on 
our ability to operate.

In the wake of the deepening financial 
crisis, global regulators have continued 
to issue a raft of new regulation. While 
much of the detail is still evolving, the 
direction is towards an intensifying 
regulatory environment with even 
tighter controls on banking and asset 
management. Structural reform has led 
a number of global regulators to adopt 
a ‘twin peaks’ regulatory model, which 
is expected to result in an increased 
focus on business conduct activities. 
Customer protection in developing 
markets and information security and 
privacy are also regulatory hotspots.

Solvency II and SAM in South Africa  
will create step changes in insurance 
prudential regulation, with focus on 
internal risk and capital management  
and the more proactive nature of Group 
supervision under the Group internal 
model approval process.

Governments continue to impose 
greater burdens on taxpayers as they 
seek to enhance revenue yield and 
transfer more of the cost of tax compliance 
to taxpayers. The risk for the Group is 
amplified by its broad geographical 
spread, which requires it to manage a 
diversity of changing tax requirements 
and regulations.

Old Mutual is well positioned to meet 
increased regulatory expectations since 
we scan the regulatory environment on  
a global basis.

dedicated Group and business 
unit compliance teams closely 
monitor new and changing regulatory 
developments and liaise regularly 
with local regulators and trade bodies 
to influence outcomes positively.

The Group provides a co-ordination role  
in relation to the FSA, which is the lead 
authority for Old Mutual plc under the 
Financial Groups directive and for 
approval of our internal model application 
under Solvency II.

The iCRaFT project is designed to deliver 
all Solvency II and SAM requirements, as a 
minimum. It made good progress in 2011 
and project deliverables are on target as 
we transition into business as usual. 

All major business units have dedicated 
in-house tax resources who assess and 
monitor new developments. For example 
the changes introduced by the SA budget 
in February 2012 are already being 
considered when pricing our policyholder 
products, and actions are being taken to:

 ■ Update systems to enable Old Mutual 

to pay the right amount of tax to 
the authorities

 ■ Review product pricing structures and 

design value-enhancing features.

We have adopted a Group-wide 
tax risk management policy which 
requires tax review of major strategic 
initiatives and product developments 
before implementation.

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Risk and Responsibility

 Risk and capital management
CONTINUEd

Risk description

2011 commentary

Key mitigations

IT and data security
Poor IT infrastructure and resilience could 
result in disruption to our businesses with 
adverse consequences on customer 
service, loss of customer data and failure 
to manage the business effectively.

Across the LTS businesses the operating 
model was changed during 2011, 
providing greater centralised control for 
IT infrastructure whilst enhancing the 
seniority and experience of the Chief 
Information Officers in the business. 

People risk 
delivery of the business strategy requires 
significant change. Without the right 
culture, leadership behaviours and 
management practices we will be unable  
to attract, retain and motivate the talent  
we need to deliver the business strategy.

Physical security and information security 
are areas of increasing risk and regulatory 
focus – particularly in relation to information 
security, where the UK and Europe have 
seen increasing enforcement activity 
and fines.

New privacy and consumer protection 
laws have also been introduced in South 
Africa, although the practical regulatory 
enforcement bodies are still evolving.

There were a number of new 
appointments to senior roles and 
leadership team reorganisations to 
strengthen our senior talent which  
could have destabilised teams.

Selection and appointment needed to  
be rigorous to ensure that we upgraded 
our leadership capability.

The year saw further developments in 
regulatory requirements on executive 
remuneration and its alignment with 
risk-based measures.

We developed a new Group policy for 
information security and privacy in 2011, 
which will be rolled out and embedded 
within the different business units during 
2012. The roll-out of the policy will also 
ensure that information security is 
included in the LTS IT strategy and that 
key risks and appropriate control 
frameworks are in place. Q2 2012 will 
see a refresh of our periodic information 
security benchmarking exercise, to 
measure how well embedded the Group 
policy is in the different IT processes 
and practices across the Group.

Group information security standards 
are based on good practice and data 
privacy obligations.

Our first-ever Group culture survey had  
a very high response rate. Employee-led 
action plans to achieve the desired culture 
shift have been developed and are being 
implemented. 

We have continued to develop our 
leadership and emerging talent by 
enhancing development opportunities 
through mobility and targeted 
structured programmes. 

Each appointment into a senior role, 
whether internal or external, includes 
independent external assessment.

We introduced a new performance 
management system, which provides for 
the assessment of both business results 
and behaviours for the 2011 performance 
review. We also broadened the use of 
incentive pools determined by measures 
including economic profit.

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Risk type and potential  
threat or uncertainty 

Group mitigating actions and 
opportunities

Business unit management actions 
and opportunities

Market (Shareholder) risk 
The impact on shareholder assets due to 
changes in the value of financial assets or 
liabilities arising from changes in equity, 
bond and real estate prices, interest rates 
and foreign exchange rates. Our greatest 
exposure is to equity risk. Market risk 
arises differently in the business units, 
depending on the types of assets and 
liabilities held. Most of our shareholder 
assets are invested in sovereign bonds 
which is included within the credit section 
of the risk profile. The analysis here 
represents just that part of shareholder 
funds subject to market risk.

The June 2011 market (shareholder) 
risk economic capital split allows for 
diversification both within market risk 
and between market risk and other 
risk categories.

Market (Shareholder) Risk 

%

The Group monitors market risk as part of 
the risk appetite framework. 

 ■ The impact of changes in market risk 
is monitored and managed using 
sensitivity analyses, through the 
business units’ own regulatory 
processes, with reference to the Group’s 
risk appetite framework, and by other 
means. This work is complemented by 
the Group’s capital modelling and 
embedded value reporting processes, 
which include assessments of the 
sensitivity of our capital position and 
embedded value to various 
market changes 

 ■ The upside presented by market risk is 
evident when equity values rise or 
interest rates move favourably. 

The Group market (shareholder) risk  
policy sets out the principles and 
mandatory standards for the management 
of market (shareholder) risk across the  
Old Mutual Group. 

 ■ Business units are required to have 
a written strategy for managing 
market risk which should reflect the 
Group strategy.

The business unit strategy must cover: 

 ■ The approach to measuring and 

managing market risk

 ■ Market risk return preferences

 ■ The current market risk profile 

 ■ Exposure concentrations

 ■ The future target market risk profile

 ■ Limits that comply with the business 
risk appetite, and risk mitigation 
techniques.

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Currency risk 
Currency risk is firstly the risk at Group level 
that net assets in business units invested in 
currencies other than sterling depreciate 
relative to sterling, leading to a fall in Group 
net asset values (currency translation risk). 

Secondly, there is an allowance at 
business unit level for currency risk 
associated with direct revenue streams 
from subsidiaries and related companies.

 ■ We manage currency risk to ensure that 
Financial Groups directive (FGd) capital 
remains adequate and does not attract 
unwelcome regulatory attention. We 
arrange our assets and liabilities to 
ensure that FGd remains at suitable 
levels in stress scenarios 

 ■ We manage currency risk associated 
with known flows of currencies from 
business units to Group and vice versa 
if appropriate, such as future dividends 
and proceeds arising from disposals 

 ■ We test the devaluation of other 

currencies relative to sterling, and seek 
to match currency liabilities to assets 
in the Group’s consolidated balance 
sheet, eg by issuing debt in specific 
currencies, and/or via the use of swaps.

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typically hedged 

 ■ There is an allowance at business unit 
level for currency risk associated with 
direct revenue streams from 
subsidiaries and related companies.

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Risk and Responsibility

 Risk and capital management
CONTINUEd

Risk type and potential  
threat or uncertainty

Group mitigating actions and 
opportunities

Business unit management actions 
and opportunities

Strategic and change risk 
The risk of failing to implement the 
business strategy and the management of 
associated changes to the business.

Key risks that could adversely affect 
our ability to deliver the stated 
strategy include: 

A rigorous annual strategy review and 
tracking process mitigates the risks in 
the following ways:

 ■ Unanticipated external changes arising 

 ■ To ensure ongoing ownership and 

from competitors, regulators and 
government bodies

 ■ Failure to clearly communicate  

Old Mutual’s strategy, both internally 
and externally

 ■ Unexpected performance shocks in the 

Group’s underlying businesses

 ■ Failure to clearly define, prioritise and 
monitor delivery of the most critical 
Group-wide and local strategic 
programmes 

 ■ decreasing staff engagement due to 
the uncertainties associated with 
organisational changes.

commitment, the Old Mutual Board and 
top leaders are actively involved in the 
annual review of the Group strategy

 ■ The Group strategy is communicated 

externally and simultaneously 
internally, to provide guidance to 
all Old Mutual’s employees

 ■ The Group strategy clearly sets out 
the strategic priorities for the Group 
and provides context for business 
unit planning

 ■ Competitor activity and anticipated 
regulatory changes are monitored 
locally and included in business units’ 
annual plans

 ■ Progress against business plans  

is reported at four quarterly review 
meetings and remedial actions taken 
where necessary. In addition, the key 
Group-wide strategic programmes are 
developed, tracked and reported on by 
the Strategic Implementation Office and 
the Group Strategy and Strategic 
Implementation teams work with the 
business leaders to define the activities 
that will support the strategy and track 
the progress of these activities

 ■ The business units within the Group 

have taken steps to establish Change 
teams with Change directors to 
provide accountability for the 
delivery of key programmes

 ■ The Strategic Implementation team 

have worked to provide a framework 
for change that is monitored through 
the change risk policy. This ensures 
that the risks of programme failure are 
reduced and the deliveries provide 
value for money for the investment 
in change.

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Risk type and potential  
threat or uncertainty

Group mitigating actions and 
opportunities

Business unit management actions 
and opportunities

Liquidity risk 
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Group 
is unable to meet its obligations as they 
fall due, for example if counterparties 
providing short-term funding were to 
withdraw or not roll over funding.

It also includes the risk of being unable 
to sell assets in an illiquid market, or not 
being able to raise more capital, leading 
to asset-liability matching problems and 
a threat to capital cover ratios. 

Extreme market volatility may result in 
unexpected capital calls and stressed 
liquidity positions.

Our liquidity position is prudently 
managed at both Group and business 
unit level. 

 ■ The Group-wide liquidity policy sets out 
parameters within which all business 
units must operate to identify, measure 
and manage liquidity risk 

 ■ The Group Capital Management 

Committee reviews capital and liquidity 
positions, with the Group Executive 
Risk Committee providing additional 
oversight and challenge

 ■ Liquidity headroom is one of our key 
risk indicators. It ensures we have 
sufficient liquidity to cover both asset 
liquidity risk and funding liquidity risk

 ■ The Group has rolled out a new 

liquidity policy in 2011, which is being 
embedded within business units. 
The Group has a new documented 
Contingency Funding and Capital 
Strategy which is continuing to evolve 
into 2012, with business units also 
developing local contingency plans

 ■ The Basel Committee on Banking 
Supervision issued new liquidity 
standards on 16 december 2010. 
Many of the key principles are already 
encapsulated in Nedbank’s Liquidity 
Risk Management Framework. 
However, in order to meet the 
requirements of the liquidity coverage 
ratio by 2015 and the net stable funding 
ratio by 2018, Nedbank and the other 
South African banks are working closely 
with the South African Reserve Bank 
(SARB) and National Treasury to 
address the structural challenges of 
compliance for the local banking 
industry, while at the same time 
considering the unintended economic 
consequences which may arise from the 
proposed liquidity standards. 

The Group liquidity risk policy sets out 
the principles and mandatory minimum 
standards for the management of liquidity 
risk across the Old Mutual Group: 

 ■ Business units are required to assess 
their liquidity risk, by conducting a 
review of their funding profile against  
the nature of risk inherent within 
the business 

 ■ Business units must define their 

liquidity risk appetite and propose 
measures for managing this which 
are appropriate and proportionate 
to the risk 

 ■ The liquidity risk appetite must 

determine the level of liquidity risk 
exposure the business is willing to 
accept in order to meet objectives 
and optimise returns against capital 

 ■ The policy sets out the minimum 

frequency with which the reports must 
be prepared, the escalation process 
and also contingency plans

 ■ The requirement for business unit 
specific liquidity contingency plans.

Liquidity risk management is a particular 
focus in the Nedbank Group. 

 ■ A portfolio of marketable and highly 
liquid assets to meet unforeseen 
funding requirements is maintained 

 ■ Market liquidity by asset type (and for a 

continuum of plausible stress 
scenarios) is part of the internal stress 
testing and scenario analysis process 

 ■ The quantum of unencumbered assets 
available as collateral for stress funding 
is measured and monitored on an 
ongoing basis.

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 Risk and capital management
CONTINUEd

Risk appetite (RA) definitions and limit setting
We continue to develop our risk appetite methodology  
to ensure that there is a seamless transition of economic 
capital at risk into a Solvency II-compliant internal model 
calculation, which will include:

 ■ Moving away from use of market consistent embedded 
value as a proxy to estimate changes in assets and 
liabilities in stress scenarios, towards a direct calculation 
of the results of these stresses

 ■ Redefining available financial resource to be compliant 

with a Solvency II market-value balance sheet calculation 

 ■ Reviewing risk-factor stress assumptions and the 

approach to modelling diversification benefits, with 
methodology changes required to ensure a statistically 
robust approach

 ■ Transitioned internal model initiatives to business as 

usual reporting during Q3 2011, to be used in decision-
making within our business. 

Our risk appetite framework has evolved significantly over 
the past few years. We have enhanced the methodology, 
notably in the way the RA limits are set and agreed with 
each business unit. In particular, we have made limit-setting 
an iterative part of the business planning process and 
ensure that this process produces local risk limits that 
reflect local business plans rather than setting limits in a 
purely top-down fashion. As part of this process we set risk 
limits by risk type at both Group and business unit level.

Even though these RA limits need to be proposed only  
at business unit level, business units are encouraged  
to cascade the process down to legal entity level or even 
lower – to segments, divisions or product lines – as 
evidence that the RA framework is being embedded in   
their businesses.

Throughout the year business units calculate their risk 
exposures against the appetite set by the Group. The table 
below summarises the five quantitative measures we use  
to express our RA limits and exposures: 

Metric 

Explanation 

Risk appetite limits 

Economic Capital at 
Risk (ECaR) 

The reduction in post-tax economic value (broadly defined on 
a market value balance sheet basis for life companies and as 
IFRS equity for non-life companies) over a one-year forward-
looking time horizon that should only be exceeded seven times 
in 10,000 years (99.93% confidence level).

ECaR helps us to optimise risk-based decisions. The stress 
tests underlying ECaR allow us to monitor our exposures and 
deepen our understanding of where the business could further 
improve its capital allocation. 

ECaR is similar to the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) 
measure in Solvency II and has been calculated and reported 
within the Group for more than five years.

Group limit definition 

Available Financial Resources (AFR) 
should not fall below 100% of (internal) 
economic capital (ECaR).

FGd Surplus Capital 
at Risk (FCaR)

The reduction in Financial Groups directive (FGd) surplus over 
a one-year forward-looking time horizon that should only be 
exceeded once in 10 years (90% confidence level).

The FGd surplus should not fall below  
£1 billion more than once in 10 years.

FGd is a key regulatory measure which is particularly 
important to monitor in volatile economic conditions where 
our policyholder and shareholder assets can significantly 
impact our position − particularly since we hold these assets 
in a variety of currencies.

Earnings at Risk 
(EaR)

The reduction in pre-tax IFRS adjusted operating profit (AOP) 
over a one-year forward-looking time horizon that should only 
be exceeded once in 10 years (90% confidence level).

EaR as a percentage of pre-tax AOP 
should not rise above 30% of planned 
earnings over the year ahead.

Cash flow at Risk 
(CFaR) 

The reduction in the cash portion of earnings over a one-year 
forward-looking time horizon that should only be exceeded 
once in 10 years (90% confidence level).

The cash proportion of earnings should 
not fall in excess of £500 million more 
than once in 10 years.

Operational Risk 
(OpRisk)

The reduction in post-tax economic value due to one-in-10 year 
unexpected operational loss events (90% confidence level) and 
expected day-to-day losses, including reputational risk impacts.

OpRisk as a percentage of pre-tax AOP 
should not rise above 10% of planned 
earnings over the year ahead.

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In addition to quantitative RA limits, we also use qualitative 
RA principles and statements to guide our business units 
and help to improve the clarity of our risk strategy in line 
with the Group’s risk appetite. For 2011 all limits were met 
with the exception of the EaR. 

The Group earnings at risk result at June 2011 was above 
the original absolute target limit in sterling, however this was 
driven largely by the volatility in the legacy Bermuda 
business. As a consequence the Board reviewed the basis 
upon which the limits are set and agreed that, going 
forward, Bermuda’s limit will be separate to the Group’s, 
since the Bermuda limit is subject to a series of detailed 
limits and monitoring. The limits for the remaining business 
are now expressed in terms of % of expected IFRS AOP 
to allow for growth over the plan period. 

Embedding risk management culture 
We think of culture as ‘the way in which we operate’. We 
have developed a set of behaviours that define the risk 
management culture we want. These six behaviours are 
core requirements of any role in the organisation, regardless 
of where the role reports or what the job is:

 ■ People are responsive to risk information and do not just 

shrug it off

 ■ Employees think carefully about the risks in their 
environment and understand how they impact 
the business 

 ■ Employees understand the value of rules and policies, 

stick to them and challenge when necessary

 ■ Inappropriate decisions and misleading information are 

pointed out

 ■ decisions about risk are made with clarity by the 

right people

 ■ Employees share information openly; teams are 
transparent with one another and mistakes are 
not covered up. 

Incentivising the right behaviours
To support and incentivise the right behaviours in the 
executive management team, we have further embedded 
the governance framework designed in 2010 to align the 
risk/reward balance with corporate governance objectives 
and ensure it promotes effective risk management. We have 
rolled out risk-related objectives to senior management and 
performance is measured and monitored every six months. 

The framework is supported by a remuneration policy that 
does not encourage risk-taking beyond the Group’s risk 
appetite. This policy has been designed to eliminate 
conflicts of interest and support business strategy, 
objectives, values, and the long-term interests of the Group. 
It is overseen by a Remuneration Committee appointed by 
the Board, consisting of at least three non-executive 
directors with relevant experience and a good knowledge  
of the Group and the environment in which it operates. 
This enables them to exercise competent judgement on 
compensation policies and the incentives for managing risk, 
value and capital in line with stakeholders’ expectations.

We have made progress in aligning staff remuneration and 
incentives, explicitly taking into account the extent to which 
risk exposures have delivered results, and whether these 
risk exposures have complied with the agreed risk appetite. 

Summary
In 2011 Old Mutual continued to embed tools, methodology 
and improved processes and governance frameworks that 
enhance the management and monitoring of risk and 
capital in order to create value. Our progress is continually 
driven by the Group’s vision to have improved risk 
management practices and the appropriate behaviours  
to underpin them.

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Responsible business

Our approach to responsible business
In 2010 we decided to pull together the various strands 
of our work in the field of responsible business to create 
a consistent approach across the Old Mutual Group. 

We reported on our work last year. during 2011, we have 
made positive strides in developing internal networks to 
share experience, collaborate on finding solutions to key 
issues and collect the comparable data needed to 
demonstrate progress. Focusing our approach in these 
areas has already contributed towards our vision 
of becoming our customers’ most trusted partner. 

We have continued to engage with stakeholders to help 
refine our approach. Our Responsible Business Strategy 
balances the expectations of our stakeholders while 
addressing key business issues. Stakeholders with whom 
we have worked include our customers, employees, 
suppliers, shareholders, community organisations, 
Governments and regulators.

However, we recognise that we need to do more to align 
our responsible business strategy to our overall business 
priorities, and that we will progress further by prioritising 
our key issues and improving the quality of management 
information used to track performance. 

Therefore, during 2012, we will prioritise the integration 
of responsible investment into our businesses, provide 
Group-wide principles for community and social 
investments and drive performance to meet our 2020 
carbon-reduction targets. 

We will continue to invest time and resources across all 
parts of the Group to develop our responsible business 
approach, and support our businesses in tailoring their 
activity to meet local market needs.

Our Responsible Business Committee continued to provide 
direction and to be accountable for our approach to 
responsible business practice, with don Schneider, Group 
Human Resources director, reporting issues directly to the 
Group Executive Committee.

The key issues we address through  
our Responsible Business Strategy are:

 ■ Responsible investment

 ■ Responsible customer service

 ■ Responsible to our employees

 ■ Responsible to our communities

 ■ Responsible environmental management

We pursue commercial 
success in ways that 
uphold ethical values and 
respect society and the 
natural environment. 
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Responsible investment: A long-term 
value approach
We spent time in 2011 establishing the right governance 
framework for responsible decision-making in our owned 
and managed investments. We are seeking to build a 
consistent approach to integrating environmental, social 
and good governance criteria into investment decisions, 
using experience gained across the Group. This includes 
the work of Nedbank as an Equator Principles signatory 
and Old Mutual Investment Group (South Africa) as a 
sponsor and signatory to the Code for Responsible 
Investment South Africa (CRISA).

We also addressed key issues in the emerging markets 
where our businesses operate by investing in housing, 
agriculture and education funds.

We conducted our second bribery risk assessment across 
the Group and updated our Code of Conduct to take into 
account changes in UK anti-bribery legislation. Nedbank 
and Old Mutual South Africa successfully implemented new 
monitoring systems to identify and prevent internal fraud as 
part of our drive to reduce financial crime. 

Responsible customer service: Building trust 
In our drive to become our customers’ most trusted 
partner, we have been implementing a Group-wide 
customer loyalty metric – the Net Promoter Score. By 
measuring how likely our customers are to recommend 
Old Mutual as a financial services provider to their friends 
and family, we can see how and where we need to 
improve our services and products. 

All new products in 2011 were thoroughly assessed to 
make sure that all aspects of sales, compliance, profitability 
and appropriateness to customer need were considered. 
A new formal sign-off process also ensures suitable risk 
management for our customers and shareholders, and 
there has been considerable focus on addressing our 
approach to responsible marketing and selling so that we 
are transparent about what we do and how we do it. 

Our Long-Term Savings division is taking proactive steps 
to improve its engagement with customers as part of its 
customer-centric vision. 

We are building a consistent 
approach to integrating 
environmental, social and 
good governance criteria 
into investment decisions.

Responsible to our employees:  
Building a culture of excellence
during 2011, we asked our employees for their views on the 
current culture at Old Mutual, and are now working through 
a programme to build a high performance culture which has 
the customer at the heart of what we do. 

We also launched a Group-wide initiative to increase the 
number of women in senior positions. Women currently 
hold 13% of senior management jobs within the Group,  
with the figure rising to 40% in Mutual & Federal’s  
executive team.

Much of our strength comes from the fact that, as a 
global business, we have employees from many different 
backgrounds, cultures and professions. We are committed 
to increase and leverage diversity as well as encouraging 
mobility across the Group.

Responsible to our communities: Investing in 
the future 
We have a proud history of social engagement, with a  
focus on supporting the long-term growth and stability  
of communities. Through our five Old Mutual Foundations, 
and directly through our businesses, we donated a total 
of £11.6 million to social projects last year. Employee 
volunteering helped to maximise the value of the donations, 
which were particularly aimed at supporting financial 
capability, and enterprise and skills development. 

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community and market needs. For example, in 2011, the 
Old Mutual Foundation in South Africa increased the 
number of small black-owned businesses and community 
projects it supports through its Legends Programme 
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Invested in local communities

Our commitment to the transformation of South African 
society continues, with Old Mutual South Africa and 
Nedbank maintaining their Level 2 status as Broad-Based 
Black Economic Empowerment contributors. Mutual & 
Federal retained its Level 3 status. 

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Responsible business
CONTINUEd

Responsible environmental management:  
An essential role
As an international business, we have a responsibility to 
contribute to wider global issues such as mitigating climate 
change, responding to macro changes in populations and 
using scarce resources responsibly. 

We report each year to the UN Global Compact showing 
our progress in addressing universal issues, which cover 
human and labour rights, environmental protection and 
anti-corruption. This year we hosted a debate in London 
on the role of companies operating in conflict zones. Our 
businesses took part in, and learnt from, the climate change 
discussions at COP17 in durban and we appeared in the 
‘Leadership Index’ of the Carbon disclosure Project, which 
we have reported against for over three years. 

In 2010, we established our own climate-change strategy 
with a target of reducing the Group’s carbon emissions by 
20% by 2020 (from a 2010 baseline). Over the past year, 
our Carbon Taskforces across the Group have begun to 
Old Mutual’s carbon emissions
implement the strategy and our performance is shown in 
the table below. 

The future
Over the next year, we will work to ensure our Responsible 
Business Strategy is completely aligned to our business 
priorities and vision, with clear targets for the rest of the 
decade. We will work with our employees and others to 
highlight their roles in delivering our objectives and 
empower them to make their own personal contribution to 
the achievement of those objectives.

Particular focus will be placed on better demonstrating the 
positive impact we have with communities, progressing 
our responsible investment work and addressing our key 
environmental impacts. 

We will continue to report through the UN Global Compact, 
Carbon disclosure Project and our own communication 
channels to demonstrate our achievements transparently, 
while also acknowledging, where applicable, the challenges 
we face. And we will look to collaborate with others, so that 
we can continue to learn and create even greater benefit.

For more information on the highlights of 2011 and plans for 
2012, please see our 2011 Responsible Business Report.

Old Mutual’s carbon emissions

Tonnes of carbon dioxide (equivalent)  
per full-time employee from our  
2011
employee locations.
2010*

2011

2010*

Tonnes of carbon dioxide (equivalent)  
per m2 of Old Mutual property portfolios.

2011

2010*

-6%
-6%

2.33

2.47

2.33

2.47

-10%
-10%

0.21

0.23

* 2010 figures restated due to improved data collection in 2011.
2011

2010*

0.21

0.23

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Board of directors

Patrick O’Sullivan joined the Board as Chairman in January 2010. He also chairs  
the Nomination Committee. From 2007 until 2009, he was Vice Chairman of Zurich 
Financial Services, where he had specific responsibility for its international 
businesses including those in South Africa. He had previously held roles at Zurich  
as Group Finance Director and CEO, General Insurance and Banking, of its UKISA 
division. Qualified as a chartered accountant, his prior experience includes positions 
at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company (a 
subsidiary of GE Capital), Barclays/BZW and Eagle Star Insurance Company.  
He is also Chairman of the Shareholder Executive and a non-executive director 
of COFRA Group in Switzerland and Man Group plc and Deputy Governor of the  
Bank of Ireland.

Mr O’Sullivan has a strong track record of leading financial services businesses 
through periods of challenge and of tackling strategic issues successfully. His 
wide-ranging international experience and knowledge of the financial services 
industry, allied with excellent leadership ability, make him a highly effective Chairman 
of the Board, as shown by feedback from this year’s Board effectiveness review.  

Julian Roberts has been Group Chief Executive of Old Mutual plc since September 
2008. He is also a member of the Nomination Committee, as permitted by the UK 
Corporate Governance Code, and a non-executive director of Nedbank Group 
Limited, Nedbank Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) 
Limited. He joined Old Mutual in August 2000 as Group Finance Director, moving on 
to become CEO of Skandia following its purchase by Old Mutual in February 2006. 
Prior to joining Old Mutual, he was Group Finance Director of Sun Life & Provincial 
Holdings plc and, before that, Chief Financial Officer of Aon UK Holdings Limited.

Since becoming Group Chief Executive, Mr Roberts has steered the Group 
successfully through the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis and set clear targets 
to be achieved by the end of 2012, which the Group is well placed to fulfil. He has 
also taken steps to strengthen the quality of senior executive management and to 
improve the Group’s governance model. His knowledge of the Group’s businesses 
and his depth of previous experience in the life sector make him a very strong 
contributor to the Board. 

Philip Broadley has been Group Finance Director since November 2008. He is also a 
member of the Board Risk Committee and a non-executive director of Old Mutual 
Asset Management. He was previously Group Finance Director of Prudential plc 
from May 2000 until March 2008. Prior to joining Prudential, he was a partner in 
Arthur Andersen from 1993 to 2000. He has been Chairman of the 100 Group of 
Finance Directors, was a founding member and trustee of the CFO Forum of 
European Insurance Company Finance Directors, and was a member of the 
IASB’s Insurance Working Group. He is a member of the Code Committee of 
the Takeover Panel.

Mr Broadley has a deep understanding of, and experience in, the finances of 
insurance groups. Since he became Group Finance Director, he has implemented 
significant improvements in the financial reporting and controls of the Group, while 
also making an important contribution to the Board’s discussion of strategy and 
operational matters. 

1. Patrick O’Sullivan (62) 
M.Sc., B.B.S., F.C.A. (Ireland) 
Chairman 

2. Julian Roberts (54)  
B.A., F.C.A., M.C.T.
Group Chief Executive 

3. Philip Broadley (51)  
M.A., F.C.A.
Group Finance Director 

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4. Mike Arnold (64)  
B.Sc., F.I.A.
Independent non-executive director 

5. Eva Castillo (49)  
B.A.s in Business and Law
Independent non-executive director 

6. Russell Edey (69)  
F.C.A.
Independent non-executive director 

Mike Arnold has been an independent non-executive director of the Company 
since September 2009 and chairs the Board Risk Committee. He is also a 
member of the Group Audit and Nomination Committees. He is a qualified actuary 
and was formerly Principal Consulting Actuary and Head of Life practice at the 
consulting actuarial firm Milliman from 2002 to 2009. Prior to that, he had been 
the senior partner at the practice from 1995, having joined one of its predecessor 
organisations as a recently qualified actuary in 1971. He is a past Member of Council 
and Vice Chairman of the Institute of Actuaries, past Chairman of the International 
Association of Consulting Actuaries and past member of the Board of Actuarial 
Standards. He is also a non-executive director of Marine and General Mutual Life 
Assurance Society, Financial Information Technology Limited and the Scottish 
Equitable Policyholders Trust.

Mr Arnold brings to the Board a detailed understanding of actuarial matters, which 
enables the Group Audit Committee (of which he is a member) and the Board Risk 
Committee (which he chairs) to provide technical challenge to the Group’s reported 
results, especially those of its life businesses. 

Eva Castillo was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the 
Company in February 2011. She is also a member of the Board Risk, Nomination 
and Remuneration Committees. She led the Global Wealth Management business 
of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) from 
2006 to 2009, having held a number of other senior positions in Merrill Lynch from 
1997, including as Head of Global Markets and Investment Banking in Iberia and 
President of Merrill Lynch Spain and, before that, as Chief Operating Officer for 
Merrill Lynch EMEA Equity Markets. Previously she had worked for the International 
Equities division of Goldman Sachs in London between 1992 and 1997. She has 
been a non-executive director of Telefónica SA since the beginning of 2008.

Ms Castillo has a deep understanding of, and experience in, investment banking, 
wealth management and financial services, as well as a wide international 
perspective, which have enabled her to make an important contribution to 
the Board over the past year. 

Russell Edey has been an independent non-executive director of the Company 
since June 2004. He chairs the Remuneration Committee and is also a member of 
the Group Audit and Nomination Committees. He is Chairman of Avocet Mining Plc, 
a member of the Conseil de Surveillance of Paris-Orléans, SA and a non-executive 
director of a number of companies in the Rothschild Group. He retired from the chair 
of Anglogold Ashanti Limited in May 2010, having served on its board for 12 years. 
Previously he had also served on the boards of English China Clays plc, Wassall plc, 
Northern Foods plc, Associated British Ports plc and Express Dairies plc. His career 
began in the Finance Division of the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa 
Limited in Johannesburg. In the 1970s he was General Manager – Corporate 
Finance of Capel Court Corporation in Melbourne. He joined Rothschild in 1977 
and was Head of Corporate Finance from 1991 to 1996.

Mr Edey’s extensive range of executive and non-executive experience in both 
the corporate finance and wider industrial field, including those with strong 
South African connections, have enabled him to make a valuable contribution  
to the Board over the nearly eight years that he has served. If re-elected this year, 
Mr Edey will retire at the AGM in May 2013.

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Board of directors

Alan Gillespie has been an independent non-executive director of the Company 
since November 2010 and became the Senior Independent Director in May 2011. 
He is also a member of the Group Audit, Nomination and Remuneration 
Committees. His banking career began at Citibank, where he spent 10 years from 
1976 to 1986. He joined Goldman Sachs in New York in 1986 and was made a 
partner of the firm in 1990, with responsibility for corporate finance and mergers 
and acquisitions in the UK and Ireland. He jointly led the firm’s financial services 
practice in Europe and in 1996 established Goldman Sachs’ presence in South 
Africa. After retiring from Goldman Sachs in 1999, he became Chief Executive of 
the Commonwealth Development Corporation in the UK. In 2001 he became 
Chairman of Ulster Bank, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland plc. He is also 
currently Senior Independent Director of United Business Media plc and Chairman 
of the Economic & Social Research Council and of the International Finance Facility 
for Immunization (IFFIm).

Mr Gillespie’s background in investment banking and financial services has enabled 
him to make a valuable contribution to the Board’s deliberations during the past 
year, particularly in discussions of the Group’s future strategic direction. He has 
also taken on the role of Senior Independent Director effectively, participating when 
required in discussions with significant shareholders and ensuring that their views 
are made known to the Board. 

Reuel Khoza has been a non-executive director of the Company since January 
2006 and Chairman of Nedbank Group since May 2006. He is also a member of 
the Board Risk and Nomination Committees. He is Chairman of Aka Capital, which 
is 25% owned by Old Mutual (South Africa). He is also a non-executive director of 
Nampak Limited, Protea Hospitality Holdings Limited and Corobrik (Pty) Limited. 
His previous appointments include Chairmanship of Eskom Holdings Limited and 
non-executive directorships of Glaxo Wellcome SA, IBM SA, Vodacom, the JSE, 
JCI, Standard Bank Group and Liberty Life. He is currently a Fellow and President 
of the Institute of Directors of South Africa.

Mr Khoza’s position as Chairman of Nedbank enables the Board to gain direct 
insight into matters relating to one of the Group’s major businesses and serves as 
an important conduit for managing the relationship between the Company and its 
South African banking business. More generally, his involvement in the South 
African business community provides the Board with valuable insights into 
developing issues in the country. 

Roger Marshall was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the 
Company and Chairman of the Group Audit Committee in August 2010. He is also 
a member of the Board Risk and Nomination Committees. He was formerly an 
audit partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led the audit of a number of 
major groups, including Zurich Financial Services and Lloyds TSB. Previous outside 
appointments included six years as a member of the Accounting Standards Board. 
He is currently Interim Chairman of the Accounting Standards Board, a Director of 
the Financial Reporting Council and a non-executive director of Genworth 
Financial’s European insurance companies.

Mr Marshall’s long experience of auditing major life companies gives him the ideal 
background to chair the Group Audit Committee and also enables him to make a 
valuable contribution to the Board’s discussions, particularly in addressing the 
financial implications of alternative courses of action. 

7. Alan Gillespie (61)  
CBE, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 
Senior Independent Director 

8. Reuel Khoza (61)  
Eng. D., M.A.
Non-executive director 

9. Roger Marshall (62)  
B.Sc. (Econ.), F.C.A.
Independent non-executive director 

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10. Bongani Nqwababa (45)  
B.Acc., C.A., M.B.A.
Independent non-executive director 

11. Nku Nyembezi-Heita (51) 
B.Sc., M.Sc., M.B.A.
Independent non-executive director

12. Lars Otterbeck (69)  
Dr. Econ.
Independent non-executive director 

Bongani Nqwababa has been an independent non-executive director of the 
Company since April 2007. He is also a member of the Group Audit, Nomination 
and Remuneration Committees. He has been Finance Director of Anglo American 
Platinum Limited since 2009, having previously been Finance Director of the 
South African electricity utility group, Eskom Holdings Limited, from 2004. Prior to 
joining Eskom, he had been Treasurer and CFO of Shell Southern Africa. He is 
currently Chairman of the South African Revenue Services (Receiver of Revenue) 
Audit Committee.

Mr Nqwababa’s practical knowledge of the South African business and operating 
environment and his insight into financial matters make him a valued member of 
the Board and of the Group Audit Committee. 

Nku Nyembezi-Heita was appointed as an independent non-executive director 
of the Company in 9 March 2012. She has been the Chief Executive Officer of 
ArcelorMittal South Africa, the largest steel producer on the African continent, 
since March 2008. Prior to this, she served as the Chief Officer of Mergers & 
Acquisitions for the Vodacom Group and, before that, she was Chief Executive 
Officer of Alliance Capital (which was at that time the local South African 
subsidiary of the New York-based global investment management company) 
for seven years. She is also a non-executive director of the JSE Limited.

Having served as a non-executive director on the board of Old Mutual Life 
Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited since May 2010 (a position she has 
relinquished upon taking up her role at plc level), Ms Nyembezi-Heita brings to the 
Board significant knowledge of one of the Group’s major businesses, as well as more 
general insight into the South African business environment as a result of her 
current and previous senior executive roles in that country. 

Lars Otterbeck has been an independent non-executive director of the Company 
since November 2006. He is also a member of the Board Risk, Remuneration and 
Nomination Committees. Prior to joining the Board, he had held various senior 
business positions in Sweden, including as President and CEO of the Swedish 
mutual pension insurance company, Alecta, from 2000 to 2004. He is also a 
non-executive director of Skandia Liv and Chairman of Hakon Invest AB.

Mr Otterbeck has made a significant contribution to the Board’s discussions during 
his period of engagement and brings both operational and strategic experience, 
together with detailed knowledge of the Group’s operations in the Nordic region, 
where he was until recently a Director of Skandia Insurance Company Limited (publ), 
as well as of Skandia Liv. It is anticipated that, if re-elected at this year’s AGM, he 
will serve one further year on the Board and retire at next year’s AGM.

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Group executive committee

Julian Roberts has been Group Chief Executive of Old Mutual plc since September 
2008. He is also a non-executive director of Nedbank Group Limited, Nedbank 
Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited. He joined 
Old Mutual in August 2000 as Group Finance Director, moving on to become CEO 
of Skandia following its purchase by Old Mutual in February 2006. Prior to joining 
Old Mutual, he was Group Finance Director of Sun Life & Provincial Holdings plc 
and, before that, Chief Financial Officer of Aon UK Holdings Limited.

Peter Bain is President and Chief Executive Officer of Old Mutual Asset Management, 
the US-based global asset management business of Old Mutual plc. He has 
more than two decades of experience leading and advising firms in the investment 
management industry. Previously he was a Senior Executive Vice President at 
Legg Mason, Inc., where he held leadership positions from 2000 to 2009. Most 
recently he served as Head of Affiliate Management and Corporate Strategy, 
with responsibility for overseeing the firm’s investment managers. Prior to that, 
he was Chief Administrative Officer, responsible for the firm’s overall 
administration and operations.

Philip Broadley has been Group Finance Director since November 2008. He is also a 
non-executive director of Old Mutual Asset Management. He was previously Group 
Finance Director of Prudential plc from May 2000 until March 2008. Prior to joining 
Prudential, he was a partner in Arthur Andersen from 1993 to 2000. He has been 
Chairman of the 100 Group of Finance Directors, was a founding member and 
trustee of the CFO Forum of European Insurance Company Finance Directors, and 
was a member of the IASB’s Insurance Working Group. He is a member of the Code 
Committee of the Takeover Panel.

Mike Brown has been Chief Executive of Nedbank Group Limited since March 2010. 
He was previously the Chief Financial Officer of Nedbank Group and Nedbank 
Limited from November 2004. Prior to that, he headed Property Finance at Nedbank 
and before that he was an executive director of BoE Limited.

Julian Roberts (54)
B.A., F.C.A., M.C.T.
Group Chief Executive 

Peter Bain (53) 
B.A., J.D. 
President and Chief Executive Officer,  
Old Mutual Asset Management (US)

Philip Broadley (51) 
M.A., F.C.A.
Group Finance Director

Mike Brown (45) 
B.Com., Dip. Acc., C.A. (SA), A.M.P.
Chief Executive, Nedbank Group

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Ian Gladman joined Old Mutual as Group Strategy Director in January 2012. 
He had previously worked at UBS Investment Bank for 16 years, most recently 
as Co-Head of Financial Institutions, EMEA, covering a wide range of UK and 
European insurance companies, banks and asset managers. He was previously 
Head of Corporate Finance, South Africa for UBS from 1998 to 2001, during which 
time he led the local UBS team advising Old Mutual on its demutualisation and 
original listing. He also advised Nedbank on a number of assignments and BoE 
on its acquisition by Nedbank. Prior to joining UBS, he worked at Goldman Sachs 
and JP Morgan.

Paul Hanratty has been CEO of Long-Term Savings since March 2009 and 
Chairman of Old Mutual South Africa since September 2009. He has been with 
Old Mutual South Africa (OMSA) since 1984. He is a fellow of the Institute of 
Actuaries and has held a number of roles at Old Mutual. These have included 
Head of Product Development, General Manager Finance and Actuarial, and 
Head of the Retail business of OMSA. He joined the Board of OMSA’s life 
business in 2003 and became Managing Director of OMSA in 2006.

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Sue Kean has been Chief Risk Officer since January 2011, having joined Old Mutual 
in July 2010 as Head of Governance & Regulatory Compliance. She has over 25 
years’ experience in insurance and financial services. She previously worked at 
Friends Provident and Aviva in a variety of risk and regulatory roles. She also spent 
time at the Financial Services Authority, and held positions in relation to Solvency II 
on industry bodies such as the Chief Risk Officer Forum and the European 
insurance trade body, the Comité Européen des Assurances (CEA).

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Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of Human Resources for 
their Global Wealth Management Division. Prior to that, he headed HR for their 
Global Markets and Investment Banking Division. He originally joined Merrill Lynch 
in 1997 as Head of International Human Resources, based in London, where he 
was responsible for all HR activities outside the US. Prior to that, he worked for 
Morgan Stanley for 13 years and held a variety of senior HR roles in both New 
York and London. He started his career as a consultant in human resources.

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Ian Gladman (47)  
B.A.
Group Strategy Director

Paul Hanratty (50) 
B.Bus. Sc. (Hons), F.I.A. 
Chief Executive Officer, Long-Term Savings 
and Chairman, Old Mutual South Africa

Sue Kean (49)  
B.A. (Econ.) A.C.A.
Chief Risk Officer

Don Schneider (54)
B.A., M.A. 
Group Human Resources Director

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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directors’ report on corporate 
Governance and other matters

Old Mutual views good 
governance as a vital 
ingredient in operating a 
successful business.
Patrick O’Sullivan
Chairman

We continued to refresh the Board’s membership 
during 2011, with the recruitment of Eva Castillo  
and the retirement at our Annual General Meeting  
of two of our long-standing non-executive directors, 
Nigel Andrews and Rudi Bogni. We were also pleased 
to welcome Nku Nyembezi-Heita to the Board in  
March 2012.

The Board spent a considerable amount of time during the 
year addressing strategic issues and the sale of the Group’s 
Nordic business, which we anticipate will complete later in 
March 2012. This transaction, along with the sale of the US 
Life business which completed in the first half of 2011, has 
contributed towards achieving the restructuring objectives 
that we announced in 2010, enabling the Board now to 
focus on the longer-term future of the Group. 

During the year, the Board reviewed output from the first 
Group-wide survey of culture and values, which provided  
a helpful benchmark on current strengths and weaknesses. 
We hope to improve the Group’s culture over the coming 
years as these surveys are repeated annually.

The Board continued to monitor relationships with regulators 
and received a report from our supervisory regulator, the 
FSA, on findings from its most recent ‘ARROW’ visit, which 
showed an improved picture of the Group’s governance 
and financial stability. We also received continued training 
on the important implications of Solvency II for our life 
insurance operations.

An externally facilitated review of Board effectiveness took 
place towards the end of the year under the auspices of an 
independent firm, IDDAS. This has provided us with some 
useful suggestions for how to improve Board performance 
in the future. 

During the first half of 2011, we implemented a transition  
to paperless meetings through posting of materials on a 
Sharepoint site with access via iPads. The timeliness and 
accessibility of information provided to the Board and its 
Committees have benefited as a direct result of this. 

I intend to continue to ensure over the coming year that 
directors’ time is spent on issues that make a real difference 
to the Group.

Patrick O’Sullivan
Chairman

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Approach to governance
Old Mutual views good governance as a vital ingredient  
in operating a successful business, so that it can provide 
assurance to shareholders, customers and regulators  
that the Group’s businesses are being properly managed 
and controlled.

During 2011, steps were taken to embed around the Group 
our Group Operating Model, under which we now operate  
a ‘strategic controller’ model steered from our head office. 
This Model establishes clear principles of delegation and 
escalation that are designed to provide appropriate levels  
of assurance about the control environment, while retaining 
flexibility for our businesses to operate efficiently.

Compliance with the UK Corporate 
Governance Code
As the Company’s primary listing (now known in the UK  
as a premium listing) is on the London Stock Exchange,  
this report mainly addresses the matters covered by the  
UK Corporate Governance Code, but the Company also 
has regard to governance expectations in the four other 
territories where its shares are listed (South Africa, Malawi, 
Namibia and Zimbabwe). The Company’s major South 
African subsidiaries are also subject to applicable local 
governance expectations, including those contained  
in King III and, in the case of Nedbank Group Limited,  
the Listings Requirements of the JSE Limited.

Throughout the year ended 31 December 2011 and  
in the preparation of this Annual Report and these 
Accounts, the Company has complied with the main  
and supporting principles and provisions set out in the UK 
Corporate Governance Code as described in the following 
sections of this Report. The Company’s compliance with 
UK Corporate Governance Code provisions C1.1, C2.1, C3.1 
to C3.7, and the statement relating to the going concern 
basis adopted in preparing the financial statements set out 
at the end of this section of this report, have been reviewed 
by the Company’s auditors, KPMG Audit Plc, in accordance 
with guidance published by the Auditing Practices Board.

Board of Directors
Membership
The Old Mutual Board currently has 12 members, two  
of whom are executive and ten of whom are non-executive 
directors. All of the current directors, except for Eva Castillo 
(who was appointed to the Board in February 2011), and 
Nku Nyembezi-Heita (who joined the Board in March 2012), 
served throughout the year ended 31 December 2011. 
Nigel Andrews and Rudi Bogni both retired from the Board  
at the end of the AGM in May 2011, having each served  
nine years.

Responsibilities of the Board
The Board’s role is to exercise stewardship of the Company 
within a framework of prudent and effective controls that 
enables risk to be assessed and managed. The Board sets 
the Company’s strategic aims, reviews whether the 
necessary financial and human resources are in place for  
it to meet its objectives and monitors management 
performance. It is kept informed about major developments 
affecting the Group through the Group Chief Executive’s 
monthly reports and also holds regular strategy sessions  
at which high-level strategic matters are debated.

The Board has overall authority for the conduct of the 
business of the Group and the Group Operating Model sets 
out matters that are specifically reserved for Board decision 
and protocols that govern escalation of issues to it and 
delegation of powers from it in a manner that is designed  
to ensure clarity about where responsibility for decision-
making lies. Further detail is set out under the heading 
‘Group Operating Model’ below.

2011 operations
Board meetings were held regularly during 2011. As usual, 
scheduled meetings were co-ordinated with the Company’s 
reporting calendar to allow for detailed consideration  
of interim and final results and interim management 
statements. Sessions were also devoted to strategy  
and business planning and the Board met ad hoc,  
as required, to deal with specific matters requiring its 
consideration. In all, ten Board meetings (of which eight 
were scheduled and two convened ad hoc) were held 
during the year.

Monthly management accounts were circulated to each 
member of the Board within three weeks of the month  
end, containing detailed analysis of the businesses’ financial 
performance, including comparisons against budget. Any 
issues arising from these are addressed at Board meetings 
or can be raised directly with management.

The Board calendar ensures that all key matters are 
scheduled for attention over the course of the year, 
including presentations on the Group’s major businesses. 
During 2011, the Board held three meetings at the  
Group’s South African and one meeting at its US 
businesses’ premises.

In addition to its normal agenda items, the Board addressed 
the following matters, among others, during the year:

 ■ Progress against the Group’s strategic targets for  

the end of 2012; 

 ■ Training on the implications for the Group of the 

introduction of Solvency II; and

 ■ Hedging strategy and scenario-planning for Old  

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New directors receive induction upon their appointment  
to the Board, with an extensive list of briefing sessions 
available about the Group’s businesses in conjunction  
with other directors, members of senior management  
and external advisers (such as the auditors). These 
arrangements applied particularly to Alan Gillespie and  
Eva Castillo, as the most recent appointees, during 2011.  
All directors have access to the Group Company Secretary, 
who is responsible to the Board for ensuring that Board 
procedures are complied with. Facilities are available for  
the directors to take independent professional advice  
at the Company’s expense for the furtherance of their 
duties, whether as members of the Board or of any of  
its committees. The Company maintains directors’ and 
officers’ liability insurance in respect of legal action 
against its directors and senior managers.

Delegation of certain responsibilities
In accordance with the Group Operating Model, the Board 
has delegated its executive powers to the Group Chief 
Executive, with power to sub-delegate, and also to the 
Approvals Committee. In his co-ordination and stewardship 
of the Group, the Group Chief Executive is advised by the 
Group Executive Committee, a consultative management 
committee. Details of members of the Group Executive 
Committee accompany their photographs on pages 94 
and 95 of this Annual Report. The Board has also 
delegated specific responsibilities for certain matters to 
Board committees. The principal Board committees 
have responsibility for Nomination, Remuneration, Group  
Audit and Board Risk matters, subject to their respective 
terms of reference. The Board receives reports from  
these committees on the subjects that they have covered. 
The matters addressed by the principal Board committees 
in 2011 are outlined below under the heading ‘Board 
Committees’ and, for the Remuneration Committee, in 
the Remuneration Report.

Group Operating Model
The objectives of the Group Operating Model are:  
(i) to establish a clear and comprehensive governance 
framework, with appropriate procedures, systems and 
controls, facilitating the satisfactory discharge of the duties 
and obligations of regulated firms, directors and employees 
within the Group; (ii) to provide a clear articulation of Old 
Mutual plc’s expectations (as shareholder) of business unit 
boards when exercising their powers as set out in their 
respective constitutions in force from time to time; (iii) to take 
due account of the regulatory requirement that boards of 
regulated entities maintain proper controls over the affairs  
of their respective businesses; and (iv) to protect the 
interests of the Group’s various stakeholders including its 
shareholders, creditors, policyholders and customers.

The governance relationship with the Group’s majority-
owned subsidiary, Nedbank Group Limited, recognises the 
latter’s own governance expectations as a separately-listed 
entity on the JSE Limited and the fact that it has minority 
shareholders. The Company entered into a relationship 

agreement with Nedbank Group Limited in 2004 setting  
out the Company’s requirements and expectations as its 
majority shareholder. The text of that relationship agreement 
is available on the Company’s website. Nedbank has also 
now adopted the Group Operating Model, subject to 
certain waivers in acknowledgement of its separately-listed 
and regulated status, which sits alongside that agreement.

Rotation and re-election of directors
The Articles of Association of the Company require that  
any newly-appointed directors should be subject to election 
at the next following AGM and also that the Chairman, 
along with at least one third of the directors (excluding those 
appointed by the Board during the year), should retire by 
rotation each year. However, it has been decided this year, 
in line with recommended best practice under the UK 
Corporate Governance Code, that all of the directors will 
stand for election or re-election at the 2012 AGM.

The Board, having received and reviewed reports (including 
input from the externally facilitated Board effectiveness 
review) on the performance of the directors and the 
contributions that they have each respectively made, 
recommends that they each be elected or re-elected  
as directors at the AGM. Biographical details of all of the 
directors are contained in the Board of Directors section  
of this Annual Report and in the explanatory notes in the 
AGM circular.

Board performance review 
The Board conducts a review of its performance on an 
annual basis. The review is designed to ensure, among 
other things, that each director continues to contribute 
effectively and to demonstrate commitment to his or her 
role (including commitment of time for Board and 
committee meetings and any other duties). The results 
of the review are considered by the Board and appropriate 
actions taken, if necessary.

The review for 2011 was conducted externally through 
IDDAS, an independent board effectiveness consultancy.  
It was undertaken in line with the Financial Reporting 
Council’s Guidance on Board Effectiveness, including the 
emphasis on a board’s role in creating a high-performance 
culture and the behavioural aspects of board performance, 
related to challenge and decision-making. Consequently, 
for the first time, the Board’s performance review included 
psychometric assessment of Board members. This was 
designed to provide useful collective insights into how  
to improve team dynamics, communication effectiveness 
and constructive challenge further within the Boardroom. 
This insight information was reviewed by the whole Board  
in a session facilitated by IDDAS and a plan to address 
recommendations arising from this review over the coming 
year is currently under development.

The Board’s performance review is now externally facilitated 
at least every three years in line with the UK Corporate 
Governance Code.

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Skills, experience and diversity

Plans for refreshing and renewing the Board’s 
composition are managed proactively by the Nomination 
Committee so as to ensure that changes take place 
without undue disruption and that there is an appropriate 
balance of experience and length of service. That 
committee also considers, in making recommendations, 
the independence of candidates and their suitability and 
willingness to serve on other committees of the Board. 
During 2011, it also acknowledged explicitly the benefits 
of promoting diversity on the Board and has used this as 
a criterion during its consideration of a number of senior 
roles, as well as for the Board recruitment. The current 
Board composition is considered by the Nomination 
Committee to be suitable for the requirements of the 
Group’s business. However, such matters continue to be 
kept under active review, having regard to scheduled 
retirements of non-executive directors and the Group’s 
future strategy.

In September 2011, the Company issued a statement in 
response to the Davies Report on Women on Boards in 
which we set a target of increasing female representation 
on the Board to at least two members by the end of 2013 
and to at least three members by the end of 2015. The 
Company has already achieved the target announced for 
the end of 2013. It has also appointed Sue Kean to the 
Group Executive Committee from January 2012 and is 
taking active steps through a variety of initiatives to 
encourage female members of staff around the Group to 
progress to more senior positions.

Executive and non-executive roles
While there are currently only two executive directors, all 
members of the Board have regular contact with the other 
senior executive management (including the most senior 
executives of the main business units of the Group) through 
their periodic participation in Board meetings, other briefing 
sessions by the senior executives and Board visits to the 
locations where the Group’s main businesses are based. 
The Board also receives Minutes of the proceedings of the 
Group Executive Committee.

The executive element of the Board is balanced by an 
independent group of non-executive directors. The Board  
as a whole approves the strategic direction of the Group, 
scrutinises the performance of management in meeting 
agreed goals and objectives, and monitors the reporting of 
performance. Procedures are in place to enable Board 
members to satisfy themselves about the integrity of the 
Group’s financial information and to ensure that financial 
controls and systems of risk management are robust and 
sustainable. Non-executive directors on the Remuneration 
Committee are responsible for determining appropriate levels 
of remuneration for the executive directors, other members  
of the Group Executive Committee and certain other senior 
members of staff. Members of the Nomination Committee 
have a primary role in recommending the appointment and, 
where necessary, removal of executive directors.

Separately from the formal Board meeting schedule, the 
Chairman holds meetings with the other non-executive 
directors, without any executives being present, to provide 
a forum for any issues to be raised. He also conducts an 
annual one-to-one performance evaluation of each of the 
other non-executive directors, with any resulting action 
points being reported to the Nomination Committee.

Informal meetings among the non-executive directors, 
without the Chairman or any executive being present,  
are also facilitated by the Company. Among the activities 
carried out at such meetings is the annual review of the 
Chairman’s own performance under the aegis of the Senior 
Independent Director, who also obtains such input as he 
considers appropriate from the executive directors.

The assignment of responsibilities between the Chairman, 
Patrick O’Sullivan, and the Group Chief Executive, Julian 
Roberts, is documented so as to ensure that there is a clear 
division between the running of the Board and executive 
responsibility for running the Company’s business. The 
responsibilities of Patrick O’Sullivan as Chairman include 
leadership of the Board, ensuring its effectiveness in all 
aspects of its role and setting its agenda; ensuring that 
adequate time is available for discussion of all agenda items 
(in particular strategic issues), ensuring that the directors 
receive accurate, timely and clear information; ensuring 
effective communication with shareholders; promoting a 
culture of openness and debate by facilitating the effective 
contribution to the Board of non-executive directors in 
particular; and ensuring constructive relationships between 
the executive and non-executive directors.

The Board has determined that, in the absence of 
exceptional circumstances, non-executive directors 
(including the Chairman) should serve a maximum of  
nine years in office. During 2011, the way in which these 
principles operate was changed so that, instead of a third 
three-year term, renewals after six years are now for up  
to three further one-year terms. 

The renewal of non-executive directors’ engagements  
for successive terms is not automatic and the continued 
suitability of each non-executive director is assessed  
by the Nomination Committee before renewal of his or  
her appointment takes place. The section of the 
Remuneration Report entitled ‘Non-Executive Directors’ 
Terms of Engagement’ describes the current position  
of each of the non-executive directors with respect to  
the duration of their office and how the extension process 
has been applied to them.

Independence of non-executive directors
Eight of the nine current non-executive directors other  
than the Chairman (Mike Arnold, Eva Castillo, Russell Edey, 
Alan Gillespie, Roger Marshall, Bongani Nqwababa,  
Nku Nyembezi-Heita and Lars Otterbeck) are considered 
by the Board to be independent within the meaning of,  
and having regard to the criteria set out in, paragraph B.1.1  
of the UK Corporate Governance Code – ie independent  
in character and judgement and with no relationships  

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or circumstances which are likely to affect, or could appear 
to affect, their judgement. The other non-executive director, 
Reuel Khoza, is not considered independent because  
of his chairmanship of the Group’s majority-owned 
subsidiary, Nedbank Group Limited, and the business 
relationships between Aka Capital, in which he owns  
a stake, and Nedbank.

The terms and conditions of engagement of each of the 
non-executive directors are available on the Company’s 
website. These include details of the expected time 
commitment involved (which each of the non-executive 
directors has accepted). Other significant commitments  
of potential appointees are considered by the Nomination 
Committee as part of the selection process and are 
disclosed to the Board when recommendation of an 
appointment is submitted. Non-executive directors are also 
required to inform the Board of any subsequent changes  
to such commitments, which must be pre-cleared with  
the Chairman if material.

Senior Independent Director
Alan Gillespie succeeded Rudi Bogni as the Senior 
Independent Director in May 2011. The Senior Independent 
Director is available to shareholders if they have concerns 
that are unresolved after contact through the normal 
channels of the Chairman, Group Chief Executive or Group 
Finance Director or where such contact would not be 
appropriate. The Senior Independent Director’s contact 
details can be obtained from the Group Company 
Secretary (martin.murray@omg.co.uk).

Directors’ interests
Details of the directors’ interests (including interests of their 
connected persons) in the share capital of the Company 
and its quoted subsidiary, Nedbank Group Limited, at the 
beginning and end of the year under review are set out in 
the following tables, while their interests in share options 
and restricted share awards are described in the section  
of the Remuneration Report entitled ‘Directors’ interests 
under employee share plans’. There have been no changes 
to any of these interests between 31 December 2011 and  
8 March 2012.

At 31 December 2011
Mike Arnold
Philip Broadley
Eva Castillo
Russell Edey
Alan Gillespie
Reuel Khoza
Roger Marshall
Bongani Nqwababa
Patrick O’Sullivan
Lars Otterbeck
Julian Roberts

At 1 January 2011 (or date of appointment as a director, if later)
Mike Arnold
Philip Broadley
Eva Castillo (appointed on 4 February 2011)
Russell Edey
Alan Gillespie 
Reuel Khoza
Roger Marshall 
Bongani Nqwababa
Patrick O’Sullivan
Lars Otterbeck
Julian Roberts

Former directors (at 1 January 2011 and date of resignation)
Nigel Andrews
Rudi Bogni

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Number of 
shares

Nedbank 
 Group Limited  
Number of 
shares

12,725
412,1781 

–
25,000
–
–
40,000
–
104,365
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1,128,6331 

–
–
–
2,604
–
3,174
–
–
–
–
–

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Number of  

Nedbank  
 Group Limited  
Number of  

shares

shares

12,725
55,3531 

–
25,000
–
–
20,000
–
100,000
–

1,591,6441 

7,000
19,000

–
–
–
2,604
–

1,3742 

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–
–
–
–

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1 These figures do not include rights to restricted shares that have not yet vested, which are described in the Remuneration Report.
2 This figure does not include shares in the Aka-Nedbank Eyethu Trust, one of Nedbank’s Eyethu BEE trusts. These were disposed of during 2011.

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Directors’ conflicts of interest

Processes are in place for any potential conflicts of 
interest to be disclosed and for directors to avoid 
participation in any decisions where they may have any 
such conflict or potential conflict. The Company’s 
procedures for dealing with directors’ conflicts of interest 
have operated effectively during 2011.

No director had a material interest in any significant 
contract with the Company or any of its subsidiaries 
during the year. Additional details of various non-material 
transactions between the directors and the Group are 
reported on an aggregated basis, along with other 
transactions by senior managers of the Group, in Note 
G3 to the Accounts.

The executive directors are permitted to hold and retain 
for their own benefit fees from one external (non-Group) 
non-executive directorship (but not a chairmanship) of 
another listed company, subject to prior clearance by the 
Board and the directorship concerned not being in 
conflict or potential conflict with any of the Group’s 
businesses. Neither Julian Roberts nor Philip Broadley 
currently holds any external non-executive directorships 
of other publicly quoted companies.

Board Committees
The Board has a number of committees to which various 
matters are delegated in accordance with their respective 
terms of reference. The Board also establishes committees 
on an ad hoc basis to deal with particular matters. In doing 
so, it specifies a remit, quorum and appropriate mix of 
executive and non-executive participation. Further 
information on the principal standing committees of the 
Board is set out below.

Group Audit Committee 
Members and years of appointment to the committee  
(or its predecessor committee, the Group Audit and Risk 
Committee): Roger Marshall (Chairman) (2010), Mike Arnold 
(2009), Russell Edey (2004), Alan Gillespie (2010), Bongani 
Nqwababa (2007). Other member during part of the year: 
Rudi Bogni (2002). Secretary and year of appointment: 
Martin Murray (1999).

All members of the Group Audit Committee are 
independent non-executive directors. The Chairman,  
Roger Marshall, is a chartered accountant with a wide 
range of recent and current relevant financial experience.  
All members of this committee are expected to be 
financially literate and to have relevant financial experience.

Roger Marshall has submitted the following report on behalf 
of the Group Audit Committee:

The Committee met six times during 2011. The main 
matters addressed by the Committee included:

 ■ Significant accounting and actuarial issues affecting the 
IFRS and MCEV financial statements. The Committee 
reviewed the accounting policies adopted by the Group 
and considered the approach to, and valuation of, 
assets and liabilities, including the key actuarial 
assumptions underpinning the insurance liabilities.  
The Committee considers the most significant area of 
judgement in preparing the 2011 accounts were:
 – the provision for Bermuda guarantees (see Note A3 to 
the Accounts). The Committee has reviewed, and is 
comfortable with, the process for determining that 
provision. The eventual liability under the guarantees 
will depend on future events, most significantly 
market developments, policyholder behaviour and the 
level of hedging undertaken. Note A3 to the Accounts 
also highlights the wide range of possible outcomes

 – impairment of the carrying value of US Asset 

Management goodwill (see Note F1 to the Accounts). 
The Committee reviewed the assumptions used to 
calculate the impairment and is comfortable with 
them

 – the appropriate level of tax provisions (see Note F8 to 

the Accounts)

 – impairment provisions at Nedbank
 – the inclusion for the first time in the consolidated 

results of the Group’s businesses in the Rest of Africa 
(including Zimbabwe).

 ■ Reports received from the internal audit function, 

including the results of key audits and other significant 
findings relating to the Group’s control environment,  
and the adequacy of management’s responses and the 
timeliness of resolution. 

 ■ The operation of the Group’s external audit, including: 
audit plans for the year, key audit risks identified by 
external audit, changes in key external audit staff, 
arrangements for day-to-day management of the audit 
relationship, the auditors’ arrangements to identify, 
report and manage any conflicts of interest, the nature 
and overall extent of non-audit services provided by  
the external auditors, the external auditors’ engagement 
letter for the year and fee proposal, and any major 
issues that arose during the course of the audit and 
their resolution. As in prior years, the Committee 
received an evaluation of the auditors’ effectiveness 
after the audit for 2010 had been completed, with input 
from the business units as well as from stakeholders  
at Old Mutual plc itself.

 ■ Any significant findings or control issues of which the 
Committee became aware, including progress with  
the Financial Controls Initiative.

 ■ Tax, litigation and contingent liabilities affecting  

the Group.

In addition, I sit on the Board Risk Committee, while the 
Chairman of that Committee also sits on the Group Audit 
Committee, so that the activities of the two committees can 
be closely co-ordinated. I also liaise as appropriate with the 
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee so as to ensure 

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In addition, during our meetings in 2011, we focused on:

 ■ The Group’s preparations for Solvency II, in particular 
through the integrated Capital, Risk and Financial 
Transformation (iCRaFT) programme. Under this 
programme, the Company is implementing:
 – A revised Group-wide internal capital model 
compliant with Solvency II requirements;

 – A Group-wide risk reporting system which facilitates 

easier aggregation and escalation of risks from 
business unit management to the Group Risk 
department;

 – Risk-adjusted performance metrics linked to incentive 

arrangements;

 – An own risk and solvency assessment;
 – Suitable education and training activities to ensure 
that these disciplines are well embedded and used 
across the organisation.

 ■ The management of risks at Old Mutual Bermuda,  

in particular through the hedging programme which  
it has established to manage the interplay between  
the Guaranteed Minimum Accumulation Benefit liability 
under certain contracts with the asset allocations 
selected under those contracts, and the resulting  
market and liquidity risks that arise from various  
hedging strategies.

 ■ Regulatory risks arising as a result of business activities, 
in particular the Group’s regulatory environment and 
compliance status.

 ■ Stress and scenario testing, focusing on particular 

economic and business scenarios and their potential 
impact on the Group’s finances.

 ■ Risks arising from material corporate transactions being 

considered by the Group.

In addition to its regular meetings, the Committee held two 
full-day workshops to enable discussions to take place on  
a wide range of issues relating to risk management within 
the Group.

At the end of the year, the Committee produced a report  
for the Remuneration Committee commenting on the 
management’s observance during the year of the risk 
appetite metrics agreed by the Board.

The Committee also undertook a review of its terms  
of reference and its relationships with other Board 
committees. This led to some clarification of the 
Committee’s remit and the division of responsibilities 
between the Committee and the Group Audit Committee.

As Roger Marshall has indicated in his report on the 
activities of the Group Audit Committee, I also sit on the 
Group Audit Committee and am therefore able to raise 
matters at either committee as appropriate.

that I am able to draw to his attention any aspects of the 
Group’s results that the Group Audit Committee feels ought 
to be taken into account in setting levels of remuneration  
for the executive directors and other senior executives.

The Committee also reviewed the Group’s whistleblowing 
arrangements. These enable employees of the Group and 
others to report complaints on accounting, risk issues, 
internal controls, auditing issues and related matters. They 
can do this in confidence, using a dedicated hotline 
operated by an independent firm of accountants. Any 
reports are investigated and escalated to the Committee  
as appropriate. Efforts are made to educate staff around 
the Group about the existence of the whistleblowing facility 
and to help them detect the signs of possible fraudulent  
or improper activity.

The section later in this Report headed ‘Auditors’ contains 
information on our policy on auditor independence and 
non-audit fees and the Committee’s recommendation that 
KPMG Audit Plc should be reappointed as the Company’s 
auditors for 2012.

As a Committee, we hold private meetings with the external 
auditors once a year (or more often, if requested by the 
auditors) to review key issues. As Chairman of the 
Committee, I also have regular interaction with the external 
auditors and the Group Internal Audit Director, as well as 
with the chairmen of subsidiary audit committees and the 
Group Finance Director, and I have a continuing programme 
of visits to the Group’s major subsidiaries arranged, so that I 
can remain abreast of issues as they arise during the year.

The Committee can confirm that it has received sufficient, 
reliable and timely information from management during  
the year to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities.

Board Risk Committee
Members and years of appointment to the committee: Mike 
Arnold (Chairman) (2010), Philip Broadley (2010), Eva Castillo 
(2011), Reuel Khoza (2010), Roger Marshall (2010), Lars 
Otterbeck (2010). Other member during part of the year: 
Nigel Andrews (2010). Secretary and year of appointment: 
Martin Murray (2010).

Mike Arnold has submitted the following report on behalf  
of the Board Risk Committee:

The Committee met seven times during the year. The Group 
Risk Director and the Head of Governance and Compliance 
attended each meeting and the Group Internal Audit 
Director attended as appropriate. The external auditors 
were invited to attend four of the meetings.

The Committee received a report at each of its meetings 
during 2011 from the Group Risk Director in which any 
changes to the Group’s risk profile were identified and 
discussed. We also reviewed the risk appetite metrics 
operated by the Group and recommended to the Board 
some changes to the criteria to be used by the business 
units for their business planning over the three-year period 
2012 to 2014.

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I shall continue to have regular interaction with the Group 
Risk Officer and will attend some risk committee meetings 
of the Group’s major subsidiaries in 2012. In this way I will 
remain close to any major risk issues that may arise during 
the coming year.

Remuneration Committee
Members and years of appointment to the committee: 
Russell Edey (Chairman) (2007), Eva Castillo (2011),  
Alan Gillespie (2010), Bongani Nqwababa (2010),  
Lars Otterbeck (2010). Other members for part of the year: 
Nigel Andrews (2002), Rudi Bogni (former Chairman of the 
Committee) (2005). Secretary and year of appointment: 
Martin Murray (1999).

Details of the role and activities of the Remuneration 
Committee and how it has applied the main and supporting 
principles and the Code Provisions in Section D of the UK 
Corporate Governance Code relating to remuneration 
matters are provided in the Remuneration Report. 

Nomination Committee
Members and years of appointment to the committee: 
Patrick O’Sullivan (Chairman) (2010), Mike Arnold (2010),  
Eva Castillo (2011), Russell Edey (2005), Alan Gillespie 
(2010), Reuel Khoza (2010), Roger Marshall (2010),  
Bongani Nqwababa (2010), Lars Otterbeck (2010),  
Julian Roberts (2008). Other members for part of the year: 
Nigel Andrews (2005), Rudi Bogni (2003). Secretary and 
year of appointment: Martin Murray (1999).

The Nomination Committee makes recommendations  
to the Board in relation to the appointment of directors,  
the structure of the Board and membership of the Board’s 
main standing committees. It also reviews development  
and succession plans for the most senior executive 

management of the Group and proposed appointments  
to the boards and standing committees of principal 
subsidiaries in line with the Group Operating Model.  
It is chaired by the Chairman of the Board, Patrick 
O’Sullivan, and a majority of its members (seven out of 
ten) are independent non-executive directors.

The Nomination Committee seeks to ensure that its 
process for identifying candidates for recommendation  
to the Board as new directors is formal, rigorous and 
transparent. Vacancies generally arise in the context  
of either planned renewal of the Board, replacing directors 
who are due to retire, or adjusting the Board’s balance  
of knowledge, skills or independence. In identifying 
candidates, appropriate regard is paid to ensuring that  
they will have sufficient time available in the light of their 
other commitments to discharge their duties as directors  
of the Company.

During 2011, the Committee oversaw the processes for 
completing the recruitment to the Board of Ms Castillo 
(who joined the Board in February 2011) and for identifying 
and recruiting Ms Nyembezi-Heita, who joined the Board  
in March 2012. It also considered and approved proposed 
changes to the membership of a number of subsidiary 
boards and reviewed succession plans for the executive 
directors of the Company and for various other senior 
positions around the Group.

Other committees
There are a number of executive committees which 
assist the Group Chief Executive with the day-to-day 
management of the Group. These include the Group 
Executive Committee mentioned earlier in this report, the 
Group Executive Risk Committee, whose responsibilities 
are described in the Risk and Capital Management report 

Attendance record

Number of meetings held:
Mike Arnold
Philip Broadley
Eva Castillo
Russell Edey
Alan Gillespie
Reuel Khoza
Roger Marshall
Bongani Nqwababa
Patrick O’Sullivan
Lars Otterbeck
Julian Roberts

Former directors
Nigel Andrews
Rudi Bogni

Board  
(scheduled  
and ad hoc)

Group Audit
Committee

Board Risk
Committee

  Remuneration  

Committee

Nomination  
Committee

10
10/10
10/10
9/10
8/10
10/10
9/10
10/10
8/10
10/10
8/101
10/10

4/4
4/4

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–
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5/6 
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5/6
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–

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7/7
6/6
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7/7
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7/7
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6/7
6/7
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5/7
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7/7
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3/3
3/3

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5/5
5/5
5/5
4/5
4/5
5/5
5/5
5/5

3/3
3/3

1  Lars Otterbeck did not participate in one Board meeting (and part of another Board meeting) during the year because of potential conflicts of interest 

arising from his position as a director of Skandia Insurance Company Limited (publ) and Skandia Liv while the Company was in active negotiations about 
the sale of the Group’s Nordic business.

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earlier in this document; and the Group Capital 
Management Committee, whose role is, inter alia, to 
agree capital allocations within certain limits (or make 
recommendations to the Board regarding any allocations 
beyond such limits) and to approve the capital plan of the 
Group as part of the annual business-planning process. 

Attendance record
The table on the previous page sets out the number of 
meetings held and individual directors’ attendance at 
meetings of the Board and its principal committees 
(based on membership of those committees, rather 
than attendance as an invitee) during 2011.

Auditors
During the year ended 31 December 2011, fees paid by  
the Group to KPMG Audit Plc, the Group’s auditors, and  
its associates totalled £13.7 million for statutory audit 
services (2010: £14.1 million), £0.4 million for other audit  
and assurance services relating to Old Mutual Market 
Consistent Embedded Value reporting (2010: £0.5 million), 
and £3.4 million for tax and other services (2010: £6.0 
million). In addition to the above, Nedbank Group paid a 
further £4.4 million (2010: £4.3 million) to Deloitte in 
respect of joint audit arrangements.

Detailed guidelines have been approved by the Group  
Audit Committee as part of the Group’s policy on  
non-audit services and a summary of the applicable 
provisions can be found in the Corporate Governance 
section of our website.

KPMG Audit Plc have expressed their willingness to 
continue in office as auditors to the Company and, following 
a recommendation by the Group Audit Committee to the 
Board, a resolution proposing their reappointment will be 
put to the AGM. In reaching its decision to recommend the 
reappointment of KPMG Audit Plc as auditors, the Board 
took into account the fact that the firm had been the 
Company’s auditors since the Group demutualised in 1999 
and that appropriate arrangements are in place for the 
rotation and renewal of key audit personnel. The Company 
has not entered into any contractual restriction preventing  
it from considering a change of auditors and the choice of 
auditors is kept under review by the Board from year to 
year, taking into account appropriate benchmarking data.

Arrangements have been made, in conjunction with 
KPMG Audit Plc, for appropriate audit director rotation  
in accordance with the requirements of the UK Auditing 
Practices Board. The current audit engagement director  
in the UK, Philip Smart, assumed this role in April 2011.

Internal control environment
Assessment of the system of internal control
An ongoing process for identifying, evaluating and 
managing the significant risks faced by the Group has  
been in place for the year ended 31 December 2011  
and up to the date of approval of this Report. 

Responsibility for internal control

The Board has overall responsibility for the Group’s 
system of internal control and for reviewing its 
effectiveness, while the implementation of internal control 
systems is the responsibility of management. Executive 
management has implemented an internal control system 
designed to help ensure:

 ■ The effective and efficient operation of the Group and  

its business units by enabling management to 
respond appropriately to significant risks to achieving 
the Group’s business objectives;

 ■ The safeguarding of assets from inappropriate use  

or from loss and fraud and ensuring that liabilities are 
identified and managed;

 ■ The quality of internal and external reporting; and
 ■ Compliance with applicable laws and regulations,  

and with internal policies on the conduct of business.

The system of internal control is designed to manage,  
rather than eliminate, the risk of failure to achieve the 
Group’s business objectives, and can only provide 
reasonable, and not absolute, assurance against material 
misstatement or loss.

The process accords with the Turnbull guidance set out in 
‘Internal Control: Revised Guidance for Directors on the 
Combined Code’ (the Combined Code being the previous 
version of the UK Corporate Governance Code) and is 
regularly reviewed by the Board.

The Group’s actions to review the effectiveness of the 
system of internal control include:

 ■ An annual review of the risk assessment procedures, 
control environment considerations, information and 
communication and monitoring procedures at Group 
level and within each business unit. This review covers  
all material controls, including financial, operational and 
compliance controls and the risk management systems;

 ■ A certification process, under which all business units 
are required to confirm that they have undertaken risk 
management in accordance with the Group risk 
framework, that they have reviewed the effectiveness  
of the system of internal controls, that internal policies 
have been complied with and that no significant risks  
or issues are known which have not been reported  
in accordance with policy; and

 ■ Regular reviews of the effectiveness of the system of 
internal control by the Group Audit Committee, which 
receives reports from Group Internal Audit. The 
Committee also receives reports from the external 
auditors, KPMG Audit Plc, which include details of 
significant internal control matters that they have 
identified during the course of their work.

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These activities are in addition to the regular risk 
management activities which are performed on an 
ongoing basis (as described in more detail in the 
Risk and Capital Management report elsewhere in 
this document).

The certification process described above does not apply 
to certain joint ventures where the Group does not exercise 
full management control. In these cases, Old Mutual 
monitors the internal control environment and the potential 
impact on the Group through representation on the board 
of the entity concerned.

The Board reviewed the effectiveness of the system of 
internal control during and at the end of the year. Our annual 
internal control assessment has not highlighted any material 
failings. We remain committed to having a robust internal 
control environment across the Group.

Group Internal Audit
Group Internal Audit (GIA) is responsible for providing 
independent, objective assurance on the adequacy and 
effectiveness of Old Mutual’s systems of governance,  
risk management and internal control to the Board and 
executive management and, in doing so, helps enhance  
the controls culture within the Group. The work of GIA 
is focused on the areas of greatest risk, both current 
and emerging, to Old Mutual as determined by a 
comprehensive, risk-based planning process. The 
Group Audit Committee approves the annual internal 
audit plan and any subsequent amendments.

There are internal audit teams in each of our major 
businesses. The heads of internal audit in the Group’s 
wholly-owned subsidiaries report directly to the Group 
Internal Audit Director (GIAD). The GIAD reports functionally 
to the Chairman of the Group Audit Committee and 
administratively to the Group Finance Director. The GIAD 
attends all meetings of the Group Audit Committee, and 
has unrestricted access to the Group Chief Executive  
and to the Chairman of the Board, as well as open 
invitations to attend any meetings of the business unit  
Audit Committees, the Board Risk Committee and the 
Group Executive Risk Committee.

Internal audit teams across Old Mutual use a single audit 
methodology which meets the standards set by the Institute 
of Internal Auditors. Issues raised by internal audit during 
the course of its work are discussed with management, 
who are responsible for implementing agreed actions to 
address the issues identified within an appropriate and 
agreed timeframe.

Formal reports are submitted by the GIAD to each meeting 
of the Group Audit Committee, summarising the results of 
internal audit activity, management’s progress in addressing 
issues and other significant matters.

An assessment of the effectiveness of GIA is carried out 
periodically by external advisers.

Other Directors’ Report matters
Relations with shareholders and analysts
The Company gives high priority to regular, clear and  
direct communication with its shareholders, institutional 
investors and sell-side analysts by means of a proactive 
Investor Relations (IR) programme. The programme  
aims to facilitate communication with the global investment 
community, both equity and debt, and to keep investors 
updated on the Company’s performance, within the 
constraints of the Listing, Prospectus and Disclosure  
and Transparency Rules.

The Company has a dedicated IR team which runs its  
IR programme. Old Mutual continued to increase its 
communication and engagement with the investment 
community during 2011. A total of 331 meetings were 
held during the year with investors and analysts in the UK, 
South Africa, North America and continental Europe, 
comprising 218 individual institutions. This compared with a 
total of 244 meetings held in 2010. The majority of meetings 
involved the Group Chief Executive, the Group Finance 
Director or another member of the senior management 
team, although greater use was made of group meetings 
in order to improve efficiency and provide more institutions 
with access to management and also to increase the 
efficient use of management’s own time. The Company 
continued to target smaller institutional investors and those 
who manage funds for high-net-worth retail clients and 
charities in both Europe and South Africa with a view to 
diversifying its shareholder base.

In addition, the Company presented at a number of 
major investor conferences around the world as well as 
hosting international investors to a visit to the Group’s 
South  African businesses. The Company also hosted 
the Chairman of the Mandela Institute at its London 
office  at an evening reception for investors and analysts 
to  discuss the prospects of investing in Agriculture, 
Infrastructure and Housing in Africa. Copies of all 
presentations and, where appropriate, transcripts are 
posted on the Company’s website so that they are 
accessible to shareholders generally.

Currently 13 sell-side analysts from Europe and South 
Africa actively publish research on the Company. Other 
sell-side analysts are encouraged to cover the Company  
to help investors assess the Group’s valuation, its 
performance and the business environment in which  
it operates, and also to make meaningful comparisons  
with peers.

The Chairman makes contact with major investors and 
meets them as required. The Senior Independent Director  
is also available for interaction with shareholders.

The Board is updated regularly by the IR team on 
issues arising from communication with the investment 
community. In addition to this, an independent survey is 
commissioned regularly which provides the Board with the 
views of major investors on the Company’s management 
and performance.

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General Meetings
The Board uses the AGM to comment on the Group’s 
trading performance during the first quarter of the year. 
Shareholders also have the opportunity to ask questions  
of the Board. The AGM is webcast and a record of the 
proceedings is also made available on the Company’s 
website shortly after the end of the meeting. All items  
of formal business at the AGM are conducted on a poll, 
rather than by a show of hands. The Company’s registrars, 
Computershare Investor Services, ensure that all validly 
submitted proxy votes are counted, and a senior member 
of Computershare’s staff acts as scrutineer to ensure that 
votes cast are properly received and recorded.

Each substantially separate issue at the AGM is dealt with 
by a separate resolution and the business of the AGM 
always includes a resolution relating to the receipt and 
adoption of the Report and Accounts. The Chairmen of the 
Group Audit, Board Risk, Remuneration and Nomination 
Committees are available at the AGM to answer any 
questions on the matters covered by those committees.  
All the directors in office at the date of the meeting 
attended the AGM in 2011.

The notice of AGM and related materials contained in the 
Report and Accounts or Summary Financial Statements  
are sent out to shareholders in time to arrive in the ordinary 
course of the post at least 20 working days before the  
date of the AGM.

Directors’ shareholdings and share dealings
The Remuneration Committee has established guidelines 
on shareholdings by executive directors of the Company. 
Under these, the Group Chief Executive is expected to build 
up a holding of shares in the Company equal in value to at 
least 200% (increased from 150% during 2011) of his annual 
base salary within five years of appointment; the equivalent 
figure for other executive directors is 150% (increased from 
100% during 2011) of their annual base salary. Further 
details of the executive directors’ shareholdings are set out 
under ‘Directors’ Interests’ earlier in this report, and their 
interests in awards under the Company’s employee share 
plans are contained in the Remuneration Report. The Board 
has considered whether to adopt a shareholding 
requirement for non-executive directors, but does not 
consider this to be appropriate.

Directors’ indemnities
The Company has entered into formal deeds of indemnity  
in favour of each of the directors. A specimen copy of the 
indemnities is available in the Corporate Governance 
section of the Company’s website.

Supplier payment policy
In most cases, suppliers of goods or services to the Group 
do so under standard terms of contract that lay down terms 
of payment. In other cases, specific terms are agreed to 
beforehand. It is the Group’s policy to ensure that terms  
of payment are notified in advance and adhered to. The 
Company has signed the Better Payment Practice Code,  

an initiative promoted by the Department for Business, 
Innovation and Skills in the UK to encourage prompt 
settlement of invoices.

The total outstanding indebtedness of the Company (and its 
service company subsidiary, Old Mutual Business Services 
Limited) to trade creditors at 31 December 2011 amounted 
to £11,981,365, corresponding to 43 days’ payments when 
averaged over 2011.

Charitable contributions
The Group made a wide range of significant donations to 
charitable causes and social development projects during 
2011, as described in more detail in the Responsible 
Business section of this document. The Company, its 
subsidiaries in the UK, and the Old Mutual Bermuda 
Foundation collectively made charitable donations of 
£216,000 during the year (2010: £191,000).

Environmental matters
A description of the Group’s environmental impact and 
management during 2011 is contained in the Responsible 
Business section of this document.

Employment policy
The Group’s employment policies reflect our belief that 
motivated and talented individuals are critical to our ability  
to achieve our business objectives. We recognise the value 
that a diverse workforce brings and believe that it should 
reflect the diversity of the markets in which we operate. We 
promote the fair and consistent treatment of all our 
employees and encourage equal opportunities and diversity 
across the Group.

While local employment policies and procedures are 
developed by each business according to its own 
circumstances, employees are recruited, retained, 
developed and rewarded solely on the basis of their 
suitability for the job, without discrimination in terms of race, 
religion, national origin, colour, gender, age, marital status or 
sexual orientation, subject always to employment equity 
considerations in South Africa. Further information on 
employee matters is set out in the Responsible Business 
section of this document.

Political donations
The Group made no EU or other political donations during 
the year.

Dividends and dividend policy
Given the continued progress in achieving our debt 
repayment programme, the Board has considered the 
position in respect of a final dividend for 2011, and is 
recommending the payment of a final 2011 dividend of 3.5p 
per share (or its equivalent in other applicable currencies), 
which is equivalent to 4.0p per new ordinary share of  
113/7p once the existing shares are consolidated following 
the close of business on 20 April 2012. A scrip dividend 
alternative is not being made available in relation to this 
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consolidation, and the Board will consider later in 2012 
whether to reinstate a scrip dividend alternative for the 
interim dividend for the current year.

Further information on the final dividend for 2011 and of the 
special dividend to be paid after completion of the sale of 
the Group’s Nordic business is contained in the 
Shareholder Information section of this document.

The Board intends to pursue a progressive dividend policy 
consistent with our strategy, having regard to overall capital 
requirements, liquidity and profitability, and targeting 
dividend cover of at least 2.5 times IFRS AOP earnings over 
time. In future, we expect to set interim dividends routinely 
as 30% of the prior year’s full dividend.

Share capital
The Company has a single class of share capital, which is 
divided into ordinary shares of 10 pence each. The 
Company’s issued share capital at 31 December 2011 was 
£580,104,127.70 divided into 5,801,041,277 ordinary shares 
of 10 pence each (2010: £569,522,432.60 divided into 
5,695,224,326 ordinary shares of 10 pence each). During 
the year ended 31 December 2011, 6,365,088 shares were 
issued under the Company’s employee share option 
schemes at an average price of 80 pence each, 69,122,462 
shares were issued under the scrip dividend alternative for 
the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2010 at 
an effective price of £1.3254 (or its equivalent in other 
currencies) each and 30,329,401 shares were issued under 
the scrip dividend alternative for the interim dividend for the 
six months ended 30 June 2011 at an effective price of 
£1.0672 (or its equivalent in other currencies) each.

At 31 December 2011, shareholder authorities were in force 
enabling the Company to make market purchases of, and/
or to purchase pursuant to contingent purchase contracts 
relating to each of the overseas exchanges on which the 
Company’s shares are listed, its own shares up to an 
aggregate of 545,683,000 shares. No shares were bought 
back by the Company during 2011 or during the period up 
to 8 March 2012.

Out of the 5,801,041,277 shares in issue at 31 December 
2011:

 ■ 239,434,888 shares were held by the Company in 

treasury; and

 ■ 200,170,073 shares were held by African life and asset 
management subsidiaries of the Company. Under UK 
company law, these shares cannot be voted while they 
are beneficially owned by subsidiaries of Old Mutual plc.

The total number of voting rights in the Company’s issued 
ordinary share capital at 31 December 2011 (which 
excludes the 239,434,888 shares then held in treasury,  
but includes the shares held by the African life and asset 
management subsidiaries) was 5,561,606,389.

In the period 1 January to 8 March 2012, 748,309 further 
shares were issued by the Company under its employee 

share schemes at an average price of 62.51p each. 
No shares were bought back during that period and the 
239,434,888 shares held in treasury were cancelled on  
13 January 2012. As a result, the Company’s issued share 
capital at 8 March 2012 was £556,235,469.80 divided into 
5,562,354,698 ordinary shares of 10 pence each. The total 
number of voting rights at that date was also 5,562,354,698.

Rights and obligations attaching to shares and 
related matters
The rights and obligations attaching the Company’s 
ordinary shares are those conventional for a publicly listed 
UK company, and a summary of them (along with certain 
other information relating to dividends, directors and 
amendments to the Company’s Articles of Association)  
is available in the Corporate Governance section of the 
Company’s website. The Company’s current Articles  
of Association are also available there.

Significant agreements involving change of control
The following significant agreements to which the Company 
is a party contain provisions entitling counterparties to 
exercise termination or other rights in the event of a change 
of control of the Company:

 ■ £1,200 million Revolving Credit Facility (the Facility) 
dated 21 April 2011 between the Company, various 
syndicate banks (the Banks) and Banc of America 
Securities Limited as agent (the Agent). If a person  
or group of persons acting in concert gains control  
of the Company, the Company must notify the Agent. 
The Agent and the Company will negotiate with a view 
to agreeing terms and conditions acceptable to the 
Company and all of the Banks for continuing the Facility. 
If such negotiations fail within 30-days of the original 
notification to the Agent by the Company, the Banks 
become entitled to declare any outstanding 
indebtedness repayable by giving notice to the Agent 
within 15 days of the 30-day period mentioned above. 
On receiving notice for payment from the Agent, the 
Company shall pay the outstanding sums within three 
business days to the relevant Bank(s).

 ■ Old Mutual Capital Funding L.P. (the Issuer) $750 million 

8% Guaranteed Cumulative Perpetual Preferred 
Securities (the Preferred Securities) guaranteed on a 
subordinated basis by the Company. Under the terms  
of the Preferred Securities, the Issuer is required to give 
notice to the holders of such securities (the Holders) in 
the event of a change of control of the Company. In 
such case the Issuer and the Company agree, to the 
extent that such action is within their reasonable control, 
to vary the terms of the Preferred Securities and the 
Company’s guarantee (and to use all reasonable 
endeavours to ensure that the entity that has acquired 
control of the Company (the Acquirer) gives such 
undertakings as are necessary) in order to preserve the 
rights of the Holders. The Issuer and the Company shall 
also take such steps as are in their reasonable control  
to ensure that the economic interests of the Holders are 
not adversely affected by the actions of the Acquirer 
following the change of control.

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performance and economic conditions in the markets in 
which the Group operates. The results show that the Group 
should be able to operate, given its cash resources and its 
level of available credit facilities and with an adequate level 
of capital, both at a Group level and within each of its major 
regulated entities. To the extent that changes in trading 
performance and economic conditions prove to be more 
severe than thought reasonably possible, the Group has 
evaluated and concluded on feasible management actions 
that would be possible in such circumstances so as to 
ensure that adequate levels of liquid and capital resources 
are maintained.

After making enquiries, the Board of Directors has a 
reasonable expectation that the Company and the Group 
have adequate resources to continue in operational 
existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they 
continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing  
the Annual Report and Accounts.

Disclosure of information to the auditors
The directors who held office at the date of approval of  
this Directors’ Report on Corporate Governance and Other 
Matters confirm that, so far as they are each aware, there  
is no relevant audit information of which the Company’s 
auditors are unaware, and each director has taken all the 
steps that he ought to have taken as a director to make 
himself aware of any relevant audit information and to 
establish that the Company’s auditors were aware of  
that information.

Governing law
The Group Chief Executive’s Statement, the Risk and 
Capital Management report, the Business Review, the 
Group Finance Director’s Statement, the Responsible 
Business Report and this Directors’ Report on Corporate 
Governance and Other Matters collectively comprise the 
‘directors’ report’ for the purposes of section 463(1)(a) of the 
Companies Act 2006. The Remuneration Report set out in 
this Annual Report is the directors’ remuneration report for 
the purposes of section 463(1)(b) of that Act. English law 
governs the disclosures contained in and liability for the 
directors’ report and the directors’ remuneration report.

By order of the Board

Martin Murray 
Group Company Secretary 
9 March 2012

Substantial interests in voting rights
At 31 December 2011, the following substantial interests in 
voting rights had been declared to the Company in 
accordance with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules:

  31 Dec 2011  
Number of  

  voting rights

410,748,581

Cevian Capital
Public Investment  
   Corporation of the Republic 

of South Africa

307,212,664

Sanlam Investment  
  Management (Pty) Limited
BlackRock Inc
Legal & General Group PLC
Old Mutual Life 
   Assurance Company  
(South Africa) Limited

305,691,719
264,286,239
185,451,357

  % of voting  

rights

7.38

5.52

5.50
4.75
3.33

185,464,458

3.33

Between 31 December 2011 and 8 March 2012, there have 
been no notifications to the Company of any changes to the 
above disclosable interests nor any new such notifications 
by other shareholders. 

Going concern 
The Group’s business activities, together with factors likely 
to affect its future development, performance and position 
are set out in the Business Review. The Business Review 
also explains the basis on which the Group generates  
and preserves value over the longer term and the strategy 
for delivering the objectives of the Group. The financial 
position of the Group, its cash flows, liquidity position and 
borrowing facilities are described in the Group Finance 
Director’s Statement. In addition, Note E11 to the Accounts 
includes the Group’s objectives, policies and processes  
for managing its capital and sets out details of the risks 
related to financial instruments and insurance risks taken  
on by the Group.

The Group continues to meet group and individual entity 
capital requirements and day-to-day liquidity needs through 
its available free cash and credit facilities. The Company’s 
primary existing revolving credit facility of £1,200 million runs 
until April 2016. The Company also had significant cash 
holdings, totalling £441 million, at the year end.

A number of factors, including the levels of world equity 
markets, defaults in corporate bond portfolios, currency 
fluctuations, demand for the Group’s products and other 
economic factors, are considered individually and in 
combination in the Group’s forecasts and projections, 
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Since I took over the Chairmanship of the 
Remuneration Committee (the Committee) in May 2011, 
executive pay has been continuously in the spotlight. 
There has been significant scrutiny from the media and 
soul-searching within companies on the issue. External 
governance guidelines and principles have been 
revised to reflect changing conditions in the financial 
sector, where companies have been inundated by 
recommendations from remuneration advisers and 
criticism from the public and the media. 

I am pleased to say that my predecessor left me in a solid 
position as regards the governance of remuneration within 
the Company. Since early 2010, extensive work has been 
done to develop risk management processes that ensure 
rewards are appropriately aligned with both short- and 
long-term performance and do not encourage excessive 
risk-taking in the Group. All of our major business units now 
take account of risk-adjusted profit (Economic Profit) in the 
calculation of bonus pools. Outcomes from these bonus 
pools are linked to balanced scorecards for all senior 
executives that have objectives which encourage improved 
risk management. This approach has been adopted in line 
with FSA guidelines and the evolving requirements of 
Solvency II.

No significant change or restructuring has been made to 
the remuneration or incentive structure for the executive 
directors in 2012. However, the current long-term incentive 
plan, the Old Mutual Strategic Incentive Plan (OMSIP), was 
designed to incentivise a change in the strategic direction 
and restructuring of the Group over three to four years and 
the targets used for awards under the OMSIP were agreed 
for a two-year period (2010 and 2011) only. Accordingly, 
revised targets for annual long-term incentive awards have 
been agreed, as described later in this report, to provide an 
appropriate level of reward for sustained financial 
performance within agreed risk parameters.

In this section, we 
describe the Company’s 
remuneration practices 
during 2011 and its 
policies for 2012 and 
future years with 
particular emphasis on 
the remuneration 
arrangements for the 
executive directors.
Russell Edey
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee

Summary

Context to the  
Remuneration Report

Remuneration policies

Employee share plans

 ■ Introduction from the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
 ■ Committee terms of reference, membership and meetings
 ■ Subsidiary Remuneration Committees 
 ■ Performance graphs

 ■ Remuneration policy for executive directors
 ■ Overview of executive directors’ remuneration
 ■ Executive directors’ remuneration in 2012
 ■ Executive directors’ remuneration during 2011
 ■ Long-term incentives
 ■ Directors’ emoluments for 2011
 ■ Chairman and non-executive directors’ remuneration

 ■ Change of control
 ■ Employee Share Ownership Trusts
 ■ Dilution limits
 ■ Directors’ interests under employee share plans
 ■ Company share price performance
 ■ Executive directors’ shareholding requirements

Further information

 ■ Directors’ terms of engagement

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Recognising the increasing need for clarity, transparency 
and disclosure of remuneration and incentive arrangements, 
we have: 

 ■ Agreed a simple and transparent approach to 

performance targets for long-term incentives; and 
 ■ Restructured this report to improve clarity and give  

a clear view of total remuneration (awarded and paid)  
in 2011 as well as the policy for 2012. 

Russell Edey
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee 
9 March 2012

The following key points regarding executive remuneration 
are described in detail in the body of the report that follows:

 ■ Basic salary increases for executive directors (and for 
other members of the Group Executive Committee) 
effective in 2012 were below inflation and in line with,  
or below, average increases provided to other 
employees across the Group

 ■ During 2011, the short-term incentive plan resulted in 
awards above target, but below maximum levels, to 
reflect the strong financial performance, continued 
restructuring and sound risk management of the Group
 ■ During 2011, the long-term incentives granted in 2008 
did not vest because the three-year performance 
targets were not achieved. This was the third year in 
a row that no vesting had occurred on the long-term 
incentive plan 

 ■ In 2012, there will be full vesting of long-term incentives 

for executive directors and employees across the 
Group, based on the achievement of the three-year 
performance targets set in 2009

 ■ Neither short-term nor long-term incentive award levels 

were increased for executive directors for 2012.

These actions and results are in line with the Committee’s 
approach to ensure that executive pay does not become 
inflated or distorted and that it is directly linked to Group 
performance. When performance over the measurement 
period does not merit incentive payouts, they are not made. 
Conversely, when performance over the measurement 
period does merit incentive payouts, they are made.

Extensive work has been 
done to develop risk 
management processes  
that ensure rewards are 
appropriately aligned with 
both short- and long-term 
performance.

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This report has been prepared by the Committee and approved by the Board. The figures included in the sections of 
this report headed ‘Performance graphs, on pages 112 and 113, ‘Executive directors’ remuneration during 2011’ on page 
116, ‘Directors’ emoluments for 2011’ on page 119 and ‘Directors’ interests under employee share plans’ on page 122, 
have been audited by KPMG Audit Plc as required by the Large & Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts & 
Reports) Regulations 2008. Their audit report is set out on page 241. The information in the remainder of this report has 
not been audited.

Remuneration Committee
The Committee is a committee of the Board. Its full terms of reference are published on the Company’s website. The 
Committee is responsible for:

 ■ Determining the remuneration, incentive arrangements, benefits and any compensation payments of the executive 

directors

 ■ Determining the remuneration of the Chairman of the Board
 ■ Monitoring and approving the level and structure of remuneration of the executive directors of the Company, the 
Group Company Secretary, senior executive employees (as identified by the Board) and those who perform a 
significant influence function or whose activities have, or could have, a material impact on the risk profile of the 
Company or as defined for compliance with regulations in accordance with the Group’s remuneration policy

 ■ Reviewing, monitoring and approving, or recommending for approval, the Company’s share incentive arrangements 

and awards.

Membership and meetings of the Committee during 2011
The following, all of whom are or were at the relevant time independent non-executive directors of the Company, served  
as members of the Committee during the year:

Name of non-executive director

Position

Period on the Committee

Russell Edey
Eva Castillo
Alan Gillespie
Bongani Nqwababa
Lars Otterbeck
Rudi Bogni
Nigel Andrews

Chairman
Member
Member
Member
Member
Former Chairman
Former Member

June 2007 to date (Member until May 2011)
Feb 2011 to date
November 2010 to date
April 2010 to date
April 2010 to date
March 2005 to May 2011 (Member until May 2005) 
November 2002 to May 2011

The Committee Chairman has access to and regular contact with Group HR independently of the executive directors. 
During 2011, the Committee met seven times. The Board accepted the recommendations made by the Committee during 
the year without amendment. The Group Company Secretary, Martin Murray, acted as Secretary to the Committee. Other 
attendees at Committee meetings to which they were respectively invited during 2011 were as follows:

Name

Philip Broadley*
Andrew Birrell*
Paul Forsythe
Alan Judes
Reuel Khoza
Patrick O’Sullivan*
Julian Roberts*
Don Schneider*
Crispin Sonn
Kevin Stacey

Position

  Attendance at  

meetings

Group Finance Director
Former Group Risk & Actuarial Director
Assistant Company Secretary
Independent Adviser
Non-executive Director
Chairman of the Board
Group Chief Executive
Group HR Director
Head of Marketing, Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited   
Head of Remuneration

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* Other than when their own remuneration was being discussed.

The Committee renewed the appointment of Alan Judes as its independent adviser for 2011, through his consultancy 
Strategic Remuneration, and has also done so for 2012. A copy of his letter of engagement is on the Company’s website. 
Any work that the Company wishes Alan Judes to do on its behalf, rather than for the Committee, is pre-cleared with the 
Committee Chairman with a view to avoiding conflicts of interest. Work undertaken by Alan Judes for the Committee 
included advising the Committee in connection with benchmarking of the total reward packages for the executive directors 
and other senior members of staff, the design of short-term and long-term incentive arrangements, updating the Committee 
on trends in compensation and governance matters including the FSA rules, advising in connection with possible 

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recruitment packages for new recruits, design of performance measures and accompanying the Chairman of the 
Committee to meetings with shareholder representatives to discuss remuneration structures. No work was performed 
by Alan Judes for the Company, as distinct from the Committee, during 2011. His consultancy company’s fees for 2011 
totalled £72,000 excluding VAT (2010: £84,000 excluding VAT). 

Don Schneider and Kevin Stacey of Group HR assisted the Committee during the year. Group HR provided supporting 
materials for matters that came before the Committee, including comparative data and justifications for proposed salary, 
benefit, annual incentive plan and share awards and criteria for performance targets and appraisals against those targets.  
It used the services of external advisers (including PwC) as necessary.

Subsidiary Remuneration Committees 
Remuneration committees operate at subsidiary level around the Group to oversee local remuneration. In addition, the 
Management Remuneration Committee (MRC) co-ordinates policy and governance of executive remuneration at 
management tiers immediately below director and Group Executive Committee level and is responsible for the 
implementation of these in Group Head Office. The MRC and other subsidiary remuneration committees are supported 
and attended by Group HR and apply common principles, including the following: 

 ■ Remuneration must support the business drivers, corporate vision, strategy and strategic priorities
 ■ Incentives should align the interests of employees with shareholders
 ■ Incentives should be performance-related and effectively linked to success in delivering the chosen strategy
 ■ Pay should be set at levels that are both competitive and sustainably affordable
 ■ Remuneration should not encourage risk that exceeds the Group’s risk tolerance
 ■ Remuneration must be viewed in conjunction with wider people-management practices to support a consistent 

approach to achieving desired culture and behaviour

 ■ All pay must be compliant with local legislation
 ■ Underperformance should be dealt with on a formal basis according to local policies.

Performance graphs
This graph shows the total shareholder return 
(TSR) to 31 December 2011 on £100 invested 
in shares in Old Mutual plc on 31 December 
2006 compared with £100 invested in the 
FTSE100 index. The other points are the 
comparative returns at the intervening  
financial year ends.

In the opinion of the directors, the FTSE100 
index is the most appropriate index against 
which to measure the Company’s total 
shareholder return, as it is an index of which 
Old Mutual plc is a member and is located 
where the Company has its primary listing.

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Old Mutual plc TSR Performance: 
Five-year performance to 31 December 2011

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60

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20

0

Old Mutual

FTSE100

31 Dec 
2006

31 Dec
2007

31 Dec
2008

31 Dec
2009

31 Dec
2010

31 Dec
2011   

Source: Datastream
Old Mutual plc TSR Performance: 
Three-year performance to 31 December 2011

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Old Mutual (£)

FTSE100 (£)

Old Mutual (SA listing) (ZAR)

JSE ALSI (ZAR)

31 Dec
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31 Dec
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Old Mutual plc TSR Performance: 

Five-year performance to 31 December 2011

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Old Mutual

FTSE100

31 Dec 
2006

31 Dec
2007

31 Dec
2008

31 Dec
2009

31 Dec
2010

31 Dec
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Old Mutual plc TSR Performance: 
Three-year performance to 31 December 2011

Old Mutual (£)

FTSE100 (£)

Old Mutual (SA listing) (ZAR)

JSE ALSI (ZAR)

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This graph shows the TSR to 31 December 
2011 on £100 invested in shares in 
Old Mutual plc on 31 December 2008 
compared with £100 invested in the 
FTSE100 index and on R100 invested in 
shares in Old Mutual plc on 31 December 
2008 compared with R100 invested in the 
JSE ALSI. The three-year period shown 
coincides with the measurement period for 
targets set on the long-term incentive awards 
granted in 2009 and due to vest in 2012.

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31 Dec
2008

31 Dec
2009

31 Dec
2010

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Remuneration policies
Remuneration policy for executive directors
The Company embraces the principles of the UK Corporate Governance Code relating to directors’ remuneration and 
complies with its provisions. The following are the guiding principles that the Committee has applied during 2011 and 
intends to apply during 2012:

 ■ To take account of appropriate benchmarks, while using such comparisons with caution and recognising the risk  

of an upward ratchet of remuneration levels with no corresponding improvement in performance. Large UK insurers 
and members of the UK FTSE100 index, with particular reference to the subset by market capitalisation, provide  
the benchmarks for UK-based executive directors

 ■ To be sensitive in determining, reviewing, monitoring and approving matters under its remit in relation to pay and 

employment conditions around the Group, where relevant

 ■ To make a significant percentage of total maximum potential rewards in the form of share-based incentives in order  

to align the executive directors’ interests closely with those of shareholders

 ■ To provide an opportunity for remuneration packages to be in the upper quartile of the comparator group through 

payments under short-term and long-term incentive schemes if superior performance is delivered

 ■ To focus attention on the main drivers of shareholder value by linking performance-related remuneration to clearly 

defined objectives and measurable targets

 ■ To design remuneration arrangements that will attract, retain and motivate individuals of the exceptional calibre 

needed to lead the Group’s development.

The Committee has regard to risk-related metrics in reviewing the executive directors’ short-term performance and it 
received and considered a report from the Group Risk and Actuarial Director, which had been approved by the Board  
Risk Committee, in evaluating the short-term performance outcome for 2011. It also has discretion to consider corporate 
performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, to the extent relevant, when setting their 
remuneration. It ensures regulatory requirements relating to remuneration matters are met and that remuneration policies 
are consistent with, and promote, effective risk management.

The Committee’s policy is influenced by the need to be competitive with other international financial services groups, while 
avoiding any excess. This includes its approach to setting the fixed elements of remuneration at or below appropriate 
median levels. It reviews this policy regularly and continues to consider it to be appropriate. 

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Overview of executive directors’ remuneration
The Committee reviews the structure of the executive directors’ remuneration packages annually to satisfy itself that  
the balance between fixed and variable remuneration and short-term and long-term incentives and rewards remains 
appropriate. The overall make-up of the remuneration packages for the executive directors is as follows:

Element

Basic salary

Benefits

Short-term incentive

Long-term incentive

Description

Reviewed each January, taking into account market benchmarks and the level of 
increases awarded to all Group employees.

The policy is currently to pay an allowance of 35% of basic salary to cover any benefits 
elected, with any balance paid in cash. Life cover of £1,000,000 and disability cover 
capped at an annual basic salary of £140,000 are also provided.

Payable subject to achievement of agreed financial targets and agreed scorecard 
objectives. The policy is currently to make a maximum award of 150% of basic salary, 
50% in cash and 50% deferred in Company restricted shares for three years, subject to 
claw-back.

The policy is currently a maximum award of 250% of basic salary. Vesting is subject to 
agreed performance targets as set out in the section of this report entitled ‘Long-term 
incentives’, subject to claw-back.

The following chart depicts the overall make-up of the executive directors’ respective remuneration packages for 2012, 
assuming on-target delivery on short-term incentives and an expected value for long-term incentives:

%

Julian Roberts

Philip Broadley

0
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10
Basic salary

20
Benefits

■

30

40

■

Cash STI

■

Deferred STI

50
■

LTIP

60

70

80

90

100

Executive directors’ remuneration in 2012 
Basic salary and benefits
With effect from 1 January 2012, Julian Roberts’ basic salary was increased by 2.35%, from £850,000 to £870,000, and 
Philip Broadley’s basic salary was increased by 2.65%, from £565,000 to £580,000. This compares with similar increases 
for other employees across the Group, ranging from 3% for staff in the UK, Europe and the US to in excess of 5% in South 
Africa, in line with the local market. Before making the decision on the increases for the executive directors, the Committee 
considered the salary increases for other employees in the Group as set out above, and had regard to those increases. 
Benefits equivalent to 35% of basic salary will continue to be payable either as contributions to agreed benefits or monthly 
in cash, and life cover and disability cover will continue to be provided.

Pensions
Julian Roberts and Philip Broadley will not be contributing to any employer-provided pension scheme of the Group during 
2012. The Company will not be making contributions to any such scheme on their behalf.

Short-term incentive
The short-term incentive policy to be applied during the year is described above and there have been no changes to the 
policy from 2011 to 2012. The respective weightings attached to the Group metrics and scorecard objectives, shown as a 
percentage of basic salary, for the executive directors’ short-term incentives for 2012 are as follows:

Elements

Group targets 
EPS
RoE
Group targets – sub-total

Scorecard objectives

Total 

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Julian Roberts

Philip Broadley

Maximum
56.25%
56.25%
112.50%

Maximum
37.50%
37.50%
75.00%

37.50%

75.00%

150.00%

150.00%

In addition to Group targets, the executive directors, as with all senior executives, are measured annually against a balanced 
scorecard, that sets out objectives in four categories: (i) Financial; (ii) Strategy, Operations and Risk; (iii) Customer; and (iv) 
People and Culture.

In his role as Group Finance Director, Philip Broadley is responsible to the Board for all financial matters, including 
management control over the Group internal audit, Group compliance and Group risk functions. The scorecard elements  
of his short-term incentive therefore have a higher weighting than the Group Chief Executive and line management 
executives, as there is more emphasis on the financial risk, governance and capital management objectives that are crucial 
to success in his role.

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Long-term incentives 
The Committee approved a change in structure of long-term incentive awards for executive directors in 2010, after extensive 
consultation with shareholders. This included the use of a one-off award, which was specifically related to the strategic 
review and rationalisation of the Group, and regular annual share incentive awards, subject to agreed financial targets for 
awards granted in 2010 and 2011. 

2012 Award Targets
Accordingly, revised targets for annual long-term incentive awards have been agreed by the Committee from 2012 onwards, 
taking into account the market context of the Company and advice received, which emphasised the need for long-term 
metrics to be: 

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 ■ Stretching but attainable (so that executives are appropriately rewarded for delivery and not paid for failure) 
 ■ Aligned with shareholder interests.

Various approaches were considered and, given the current context and strategic intention of the Group, the following 
approach was agreed to be most appropriate:

 ■ The primary target will be based on cumulative growth over three years in Adjusted Operating Profit (AOP) on a 

constant-currency basis. This was chosen to incentivise significant growth in operating profit across the Group’s 
principal business units. An adjustment to this outcome will be made based on the relative total shareholder return 
(TSR) over the three-year period, calculated 50% against the FTSE100 index and 50% against the JSE ALSI. This takes 
into account relative performance against other listed companies. TSR will be averaged at the start (Q4 2011) and end 
(Q4 2014) of the three-year performance period.

 ■ In addition, discretionary downward adjustments to the formulaic outcome on the AOP metrics will be considered by 

the Committee where: 
 – there are any negative financial impacts or underperformance in the Group not adequately reflected in AOP, giving the 

Committee discretion to take broad performance into account; or

 – there is under-performance in the management of Group risk or the agreed risk appetite levels are exceeded. This 

enables the Committee to factor in the requirement of the FSA and ABI to take account of company risk as a factor in 
performance measurement. 

The level at which the awards vest will be determined by reference to the total aggregate AOP in constant currency achieved 
over the three-year period, shown in the table below. 

AOP Targets – Aggregated over three years

AOP (£bn)
% Vesting

Multiplied by 

Relative TSR Performance*

Threshold
Target
Maximum

Threshold

2.9
0%

|–––––––Interpolated–––––––|

Relative TSR vs index

4% or more below index
equal to index
4% or more above index

Maximum

3.5 
100%

Multiplier

0.85
1.00
1.15

* Relative TSR performance against the above ranges, with a multiplier being set on a straight-line basis between the points.

The maximum award for the executive directors, inclusive of the TSR multiplier above, remains at 250% of basic salary at the 
date of award.

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2012 Executive directors’ market benchmarks 
The following graphics reflect the market comparisons for Julian Roberts’ and Philip Broadley’s respective remuneration 
packages for 2012, based on basic salary and the maximum face value of short-term and long-term incentive awards for  
the year, against a similar analysis of the UK insurers and the FTSE 26-75 companies by market capitalisation:

■ 
■
■

Total Remuneration
Basic Salary + Bonus
Basic Salary
Upper quartile
Median
Lower quartile

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■
■

Total Remuneration
Basic Salary + Bonus
Basic Salary
Upper quartile
Median
Lower quartile

CEO (£000)

7,000

6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,000

0

Old 
Mutual

CFO (£000)

7,000

6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,000

0

Old 
Mutual

Insurers 
Basic Salary

FTSE
26-75

Insurers Basic 
Salary + Bonus

FTSE
26-75

Insurers Total 
Remuneration

FTSE
26-75

Insurers 
Basic Salary

FTSE
26-75

Insurers Basic 
Salary + Bonus

FTSE
26-75

Insurers Total 
Remuneration

FTSE
26-75

Notes
Bonus = Cash + Deferred
Total Remuneration = Basic Salary + Bonus + Bonus Match + LTIP

Executive directors’ remuneration during 2011

Basic Salary and benefits 
Julian Roberts’ basic salary was £850,000 and Philip Broadley’s basic salary was £565,000. Benefits equivalent to 35%  
of basic salary were paid monthly in cash. Life cover of £1,000,000 and disability cover capped at an annual basic salary  
of £140,000 was also provided at a cost of approximately £2,000 each.

Pensions
Julian Roberts is a deferred member of the defined contribution section of the Old Mutual Staff Pension Fund (OMSPF).  
The accumulated value of Julian Roberts’ funds in the OMSPF was £281,900 at 31 December 2011 (£294,700 at  
31 December 2010). Philip Broadley does not participate in any employer-provided pension scheme of the Group.

Short-term incentive targets for performance year 2011
The payment of short-term incentives is subject to the achievement of pre-determined financial targets and scorecard 
objectives based on the key deliverables for each executive director, as reviewed and approved by the Committee. Details 
of the structure and outcomes of the metrics for Julian Roberts’ and Philip Broadley’s short-term incentives for 2011 are set 
out in the following table: 

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Elements as % of salary

Group Targets 

EPS
RoE
Group targets – sub-total

Scorecard objectives

Total 

£000 incentive for period
Achieved incentive as % of max

Julian Roberts

Philip Broadley

Maximum %

Achieved %

Maximum %

Achieved %

56.25
56.25
112.50

37.50

150.00

1,275

56.25
46.13
102.38

35.25

137.63

1,170*
91.75

37.50
37.50
75.00

75.00

150.00

848

37.50
30.75
68.25

66.00

134.25

759*
89.50

*  These amounts are as reflected in the Directors’ emoluments for 2011 table on page 119 and will be paid 50% in cash and 50% deferred for three 

years in the form of forfeitable shares awards.

Summary of Remuneration paid in 2011
The following table shows the value of remuneration received by the executive directors on a cash basis in 2011. It reflects 
the gross (pre-tax) value of salary and benefits received in the year, the cash bonus paid in March 2011 (in relation to 2010 
performance) and the value of any shares vested together with gains from share options exercised in the year.

Basic Salary
Benefits Allowance
STI – cash* 
DSTI proceeds**
LTI proceeds***

Total

* 
 2010 cash short-term incentive paid in March 2011
**  Vesting of 2008 deferred short-term incentive award
***  Gain on exercise of share options

Julian Roberts 

Philip Broadley

£850,000
£297,500
£610,050
£130,020
£40,174

£565,000
£197,750
£387,750
£0
£659,868

£1,927,744

£1,810,368

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Overview
Long-term incentive awards are made annually and, in selected cases, upon joining the Group. Vesting is based on the 
attainment of performance targets over the following three-year period, to incentivise executives to achieve these long-term 
goals. Below is the vesting history of the most recent awards:

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Vesting date

Performance targets

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29 March 2006

Bonus Matching

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Bonus Matching

Bonus Matching

3 April 2008

8 April 2009

29 March 2009

30 March 2010

3 April 2011

8 April 2012

Growth in EPS 

Growth in EPS

Growth in EPS 

50% RoE and 50% EPS

% vested

0%

0%

0%

100%

2009 Bonus-Matching and Joining Share Options and Forfeitable Shares Awards 
Bonus-matching share options and forfeitable shares awards and certain joining awards, originally granted in 2009, were 
based on two performance measures: 50% dependent on the attainment of RoE and 50% dependent on EPS targets. 
Vesting of one-third of each award was subject to attainment of RoE and EPS targets at each tier as set out below, with 
pro-rata vesting between tiers, after tier one had been attained. Targets were tested on a once-only basis after three years 
from the year prior to the grant.

The targets are set out in the table below, together with the vesting outcome: 

Performance Measure 

RoE (50% weighting)
EPS* (50% weighting)

*Growth above UK RPI over 3 years

Tier 1**

10%
14.8p

9%

Tier 2**

11%
15.2p

12%

Tier 3**

Performance

12%
15.6p

15%

14.6%
15.7p

Vesting

100%
100%

*   Base year EPS for 2008 was 12.2p. This metric provided for a scaling back of percentages, if weighted growth in stock markets (JSE ALSI and 

FTSE100 index) over the three years was lower than 50%. Performance exceeded the highest level on the scale.

** One third of each award vests at each tier.

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2010 and 2011 OMSIP awards 
The OMSIP was implemented for the executive directors and certain other senior members of management in 2010 under 
the Old Mutual plc Performance Share Plan – Restricted Shares, to align long-term incentives to the strategy announced in 
March 2010. The 2010 OMSIP award was made in two parts as follows:

 ■ The first part was a one-time award based on rationalising objectives and debt reduction
 ■ The second part was an annual award based on key financial objectives in relation to the restructuring of the Group. 

The 2011 awards used the same financial targets as the annual awards granted in 2010. Targets for 2010 and 2011 are set 
out below. The awards made to the executive directors under the OMSIP in 2011 had a face value of 250% of basic salary.

Plan

OMSIP – one-off

Award date

13 May 2010

OMSIP – annual

13 May 2010

OMSIP – annual

11 April 2011

Vesting date

Performance targets

50% 13 May 2013 
50% 13 May 2014

50% 13 May 2013  
50% 13 May 2014

50% 11 April 2014  
50% 11 April 2015

Rationalising objectives
and debt reduction

50% AOP, RoE, NCCF/AUM 
50% Absolute TSR

50% AOP, RoE, NCCF/AUM 
50% Absolute TSR

Rationalising Objectives for OMSIP (2010 one-time awards)

Component

Objective

Measurements

Significant rationalising  
initiatives

Rationalise the Group by achieving 
strategic initiatives in accordance with the 
Group’s strategy statement to streamline 
the Group, unlock value and reduce debt

Based on the Committee’s evaluation  
of the following three factors: 
1.  Total value released relative to available 

benchmark transactions

2.  Quality of execution including risk, 

reputation and other non-financial impacts
3.  Amount available to reduce debt from the 

proceeds of rationalisation.

At the end of the three-year measurement period, the Committee will assess the sum of the evaluations of the individual 
initiatives when determining total achievement of the rationalising objectives component, and may exercise its discretion  
to reduce the vesting level of the award when factoring in total achievement toward debt reduction and any new information 
arising which suggests a different performance assessment.

The Committee assesses achievement of the individual initiatives once each has been completed. The sale of the US Life 
business was agreed to be a rationalising objective and during 2011 the sale was completed. The Committee evaluated this 
achievement against the three measurement criteria listed above and determined that this initiative was 100% achieved. 
The Committee will include this assessment, with assessments of any other initiatives that are completed during 2012, 
when it makes its final assessment of the total achievement of the rationalising objectives for vesting purposes early in 2013.

Financial Objectives for the OMSIP (2010 and 2011 awards)
This part of the award relates to key financial goals split equally between the financial performance of the Company’s 
Long-Term Savings business post-restructuring and absolute TSR targets, as set out below:

Long-Term Savings business performance (50%)

Weighting

Metric

Below Threshold

Threshold

Maximum

40%

40%

20%

Cumulative IFRS AOP Growth1

Return On Equity2

Average ratio of NCCF/AUM3

2010 Award

2011 Award

Vesting %* 

< 30%

< 42%

< 15%

< 2%

0%

30%

42%

15%

2%

20%

70%

103%

18%

6%

100%

* Straight-line interpolation between Threshold and Maximum

1  Growth in Adjusted Operating Profit (AOP) excluding Long-Term Investment Return on a constant-currency basis over a three-year performance 

period for the 2010 awards and over a four-year performance period for the 2011 awards.

2   IFRS AOP over aggregate equity allocated to the Company’s Long-Term Savings business in the final year of the respective performance periods.
3   The ratio of the Net Client Cash Flow (NCCF) over Assets under Management (AUM) will be calculated on a simple average basis over the full three years.

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Absolute TSR (50%) 
TSR will be measured on an absolute basis, 50% in rand and 50% in sterling, and will be averaged at the start  
(Q4 2009 and Q4 2010) and end (Q4 2012 and Q4 2013) of the three-year performance periods. Old Mutual’s  
TSR growth will then be compared with the vesting schedule set out below to determine the outcome:

Metric

Annual Growth in Absolute TSR (% p.a.) 

Below Threshold

Threshold

Maximum

<10%

0%

10%

20%

20%

100%

Vesting %* 

* Straight-line interpolation between Threshold and Maximum

The Committee must be satisfied that the Company’s TSR performance reasonably reflects its underlying financial 
performance over the period. Threshold performance is aligned with Old Mutual’s cost of equity and the maximum is 
aligned with performance in excess of the historic upper-quartile performance within the insurance sector.

The 2010 OMSIP award will vest based on performance over the period 2010 to 2012 and the Committee will report the 
outcome in 2013. The 2011 OMSIP award will vest based on performance over the period 2011 to 2013 (for AOP over the 
four-year period 2010 to 2013) and the Committee will report the outcome in 2014.

The Committee obtains external audit sign-off as part of its oversight procedures. The Company undertakes the 
performance measurement for each specific award and obtains agreement to the calculations from KPMG Audit Plc.

Directors’ emoluments for 2011
Directors’ remuneration for the year ended 31 December 2011 and the preceding financial year, including, in each case, 
remuneration from offices held with the Company’s subsidiaries where relevant, was as follows:

2011

Short-term  
Incentive1 

  Benefits and  
benefit  
allowance2 

Salary and Fees

£000

£000 

£000

Pension

£000 

Chairman
Patrick O’Sullivan

Executive directors
Philip Broadley
Julian Roberts

Non-executive directors
Mike Arnold
Eva Castillo
Russell Edey
Alan Gillespie
Reuel Khoza
Roger Marshall
Bongani Nqwababa
Lars Otterbeck
Former non-executive directors
Nigel Andrews
Rudi Bogni

350

565
850

93
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83
80
3823
96
74
2384

735
36

–

759
1,170

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–

215
330

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–

Total emoluments

2,985

1,929

545

–

–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–

2010

Total

£000 

350

Total

£000 

350

1,539
2,350

1,518
2,379

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382
96
74
238

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38
72
227

113
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5,459

5,3296

1  The total short-term incentives are payable 50% in cash and 50% deferred for three years in the form of forfeitable shares awards. The figures 

quoted represent both elements of the short-term incentives. 

2  Benefits include cash allowances payable to the executive directors, as well as travel costs for directors’ spouses to accompany them to certain 

Board meetings or other corporate events of the Company and its major subsidiaries. The amount of this expenditure is reported to and 
considered by the Committee, and procedures are in place for such costs to be authorised. The Committee is satisfied that such expenditure  
is reasonable and in the interests of the Company.

3   Includes fees of £316,000 (£304,000 in 2010) from Nedbank Group Limited.
4   Includes fees of £166,000 (£159,000 in 2010) from Skandia Insurance Company Limited, Skandiabanken and Skandia Liv.
5   Includes fees of £47,000 (£42,000 in 2010) from Old Mutual (US) Holdings Inc.
6   The prior-year comparative number as published in the Remuneration Report for 2010 was £5,391,000, which included £62,000 paid to the former 

non-executive director, Richard Pym.

The executive directors were required to waive fees for non-executive directorships held in subsidiary companies totalling 
£29,100 during the year ended 31 December 2011 (2010: £30,400) in favour of the Company or its subsidiaries. These 
waivers are expected to remain in force in the future.

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Chairman and non-executive directors’ remuneration
The Company’s policy on remuneration for non-executive directors is that this should be:

 ■ Fee-based
 ■ Market-related
 ■ Not linked to share price or Company performance.

There was no increase between 2011 and 2012 in the annual fees payable to the Chairman or to other non-executive 
directors. The relevant fees, applicable for both years, by role are set out below: 

Chairman
Non-executive directors
- Base fee
- Senior independent director additional fee
Additional fees payable for Committees
Board Risk Committee
- Chairman
- Member
Group Audit Committee
- Chairman
- Member
Nomination Committee
- Member
Remuneration Committee
- Chairman
- Member

£

350,000

55,000
10,000

25,000
8,000

30,000
10,000

3,000

20,000
6,000

None of the non-executive directors of the Company (including the Chairman) contributed to any Group pension fund 
during 2011 or had any accrued pension fund benefits in any Group pension fund at 31 December 2011.

Employee share plans
A summary of the employee share plans currently operated by the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries can  
be found on the Old Mutual plc website.

Change of control
Under the rules of the Company share plans in which the executive directors are participants, in the event of a change  
of control of Old Mutual plc:

 ■ Forfeitable shares awards and share options granted under the Old Mutual plc Share Reward Plan (SRP) would vest in 
full as awards granted under the SRP represent deferred short-term incentive awards that have already been earned
 ■ Performance shares and share options granted under the Old Mutual plc Performance Share Plan (PSP) would vest: 
(i) to the extent that the performance criteria to which such awards or options are subject have been met; and (ii) on a 
pro-rata basis to reflect the reduction in the length of the original performance period, although the Committee does 
have discretion to disapply the length of service pro-rating for compassionate reasons

 ■ Share options granted under the Old Mutual plc 2008 Sharesave Plan (SAYE) would become exercisable to the extent 

of the savings accumulated.

The Committee has reviewed the operation of the share incentive schemes, including how discretion is exercised and the 
grant levels currently applicable, and considers these to be appropriate to the Company’s circumstances and prospects.

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Employee Share Ownership Trusts
The Group operates a number of Employee Share Ownership Trusts (ESOTs) through which it collateralises some of its 
obligations under its employee share plans. At 31 December 2011, 200,472,120 shares in the Company were held in ESOTs 
as shown below, and 175,801,192 shares in the Company were held under award to be settled by these ESOTs. 

Trust

Capital Growth Investment Trust

Mutual & Federal Broad-Based Trust

Mutual & Federal Management Incentive Trust

Mutual & Federal Senior Black Management Trust

Mutual & Federal Namibia Broad-Based Trust

Mutual & Federal Namibia Management Incentive Trust

Mutual & Federal Namibia Senior Black Management Trust

Old Mutual plc Employee Share Trust

OMN Broad-Based Employee Share Trust

OMN Management Incentive Trust

OMSA Broad-Based Employee Share Trust

OMSA Management Incentive Trust

OMSA Share Trust

Total

Country

Zimbabwe

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

Namibia

Namibia

Namibia

Guernsey

Namibia

Namibia

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

 Old Mutual plc shares  
held in trust 

 1,261,986 

 5,630 

 24,855,847 

 4,952,721 

 12,709 

 211,520 

 168,296 

 36,427,689 

 748,201 

 2,086,497 

 17,358,840 

 78,944,918 

 33,437,266 

 200,472,120

The strategy for all non-BEE-related ESOTs has historically been to ensure that sufficient shares were acquired to match at 
least 90% of the obligations of each share incentive grant. However, as a result of the requirements of the Company’s BEE 
transactions in South Africa and Namibia, it was necessary to place shares allotted as part of the transactions in the 
relevant BEE employee share trusts immediately, in order to cover the total annual share grant allocations likely to be made 
to black participants in terms of the BEE transactions up to 2014 and 2016 respectively.

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The general practice of the ESOTs (save for BEE-related trusts) is not to vote the shares held at shareholder meetings, 
although beneficiaries of restricted share awards or forfeitable shares awards may in principle give directions for those 
shares to be voted. However, with respect to the OMSA Broad-Based Employee Share Trust, the OMSA Management 
Incentive Trust, the OMN Broad-Based Employee Share Trust, the OMN Management Incentive Trust, the Mutual & Federal 
Management Incentive Trust, the Mutual & Federal Senior Black Management Trust, the Mutual & Federal Broad-Based 
Trust, the Mutual & Federal Namibia Management Incentive Trust, the Mutual & Federal Namibia Senior Black Management 
Trust and the Mutual & Federal Namibia Broad-Based Trust, the Trustees may, because of BEE considerations, vote any 
unallocated shares held in these trusts as well as those shares held in respect of any unexercised share options. The 
beneficiaries of any restricted shares allocated by these BEE employee share trusts are entitled to vote their relevant shares.

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currently intended to be settled by the issue of new shares rather than using shares held in an ESOT and there are currently 
49,577,295 shares held under option in this respect. In respect of the vesting of share options on 8 April 2012, certain 
unapproved share options originally granted to UK employees in 2009 may be cash-settled on exercise, rather than settled 
with newly issued shares.

Dilution limits
For the purposes of calculating dilution limits, any awards that are satisfied by transfer of pre-existing issued shares (such 
as shares acquired by market purchase through ESOTs) and any shares comprised in any share option that has lapsed  
are disregarded. The Company has complied with these limits at all times.

At 31 December 2011, the Company had 1.68% of share capital available under the 5%-in-10-years limit applicable to 
discretionary share incentive schemes and 6.08% of share capital available under the 10%-in-10-years limit applicable  
to all share incentive schemes. 

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Directors’ interests under employee share plans
The following share options and rights over shares in the Company granted under various employee share schemes were outstanding at 1 
January and 31 December 2011 in favour of the executive directors. Those granted during 2011 are highlighted in bold and those vested, 
released, exercised or lapsed during 2011 are shown in italics:

 Market  
  value per  
share at  
grant (p) 

Grant  
Date

At 1 
Jan 11 

 Granted 

   Exercised,  
  Released,  
Lapsed 

At 31 
Dec 11 

Share  
price at 
 date of  
  exercise/ 
  release (p)

 Exercise  
  price per  
  share (p) 

Gain  
  made on 
  exercise / 
  release (£)

 Exercised or  
  released or 
  from which  
 exercisable  
 or releasable

  Expiry or 
 vesting  
date

 1,315,789 

 – 

 57.00 

 107.15 

 659,868 

Award type  

Reason  

Performance 
targets 
to be met

and plan

for award

Mr P Broadley

Option (SRP)

Joining1

Shares (SRP)

DSTI2

DSTI2,3

DSTI 2,3

Option (PSP)

Match4

Shares (PSP)

Match4

Joining4

No

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Nil cost options 
OMSIP (PSP)

Rationalising3,5 Yes

Rationalising3,5 Yes

Financial 
Objectives3,6 Yes

Financial 
Objectives3,6 Yes

Financial 
Objectives3,6 Yes

Financial 
Objectives3,6 Yes

Total

Mr J Roberts

Shares (SRP)

DSTI2

DSTI2,3

DSTI2,3

Option (PSP)

Match4

Shares (PSP)

Match4

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Nil cost options 
OMSIP (PSP)

Rationalising3,5 Yes

Rationalising3,5 Yes

Financial 
Objectives3,6 Yes

Financial 
Objectives3,6 Yes

Financial 
Objectives3,6 Yes

Financial 
Objectives3,6 Yes

Option (SOP)

LTI7

LTI8

Shares (RSP)

DSTI9

Match8

Option (SAYE)

10

Total

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

10-Nov-08

57.00 

 1,315,789 

08-Apr-09

 54.10 

 44,235 

23-Mar-10

 125.70 

 262,530 

 – 

 – 

 – 

11-Apr-11

 144.70 

 – 

 267,969 

08-Apr-09

 54.10 

 442,357 

08-Apr-09

08-Apr-09

 55.78 

 85,805 

 54.10 

 739,372 

13-May-10

 119.00 

 577,732 

13-May-10

 119.00 

 577,731 

13-May-10

 119.00 

 577,732 

13-May-10

 119.00 

 577,731 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

–

 – 

 – 

 44,235 

 262,530 

 267,969 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 442,357 

 54.10 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 85,805 

 739,372 

 577,732 

 577,731 

 577,732 

 577,731 

11-Apr-11

 144.70 

 – 

 488,079 

 – 

 488,079 

11-Apr-11

 144.70 

 – 

 488,079 

 – 

 488,079 

 5,201,014 

 1,244,127 

 1,315,789 

 5,129,352 

08-Apr-09

 54.10 

 301,594 

23-Mar-10

 125.70 

 378,849 

 – 

 – 

11-Apr-11

 144.70 

 – 

 421,597 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 301,594 

 378,849 

 421,597 

08-Apr-09

 54.10 

 4,436,229 

08-Apr-09

 55.78 

860,508

13-May-10

 119.00 

 871,849 

13-May-10

 119.00 

 871,849 

13-May-10

 119.00 

 871,849 

13-May-10

 119.00 

 871,849 

–

–

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 4,436,229 

 54.10 

 – 

 860,508 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 871,849 

 871,849 

 871,849 

 871,849 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

08-Apr-12 08-Apr-12

23-Mar-13 23-Mar-13

11-Apr-14 11-Apr-14

08-Apr-12 08-Apr-15

08-Apr-12 08-Apr-12

08-Apr-12 08-Apr-12

13-May-13 12-May-20

13-May-14 12-May-20

 – 

13-May-13 12-May-20

 – 

13-May-14 12-May-20

 – 

11-Apr-14 10-Apr-16

 – 

11-Apr-15 10-Apr-16

 659,868 

 – 

 – 

–

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

08-Apr-12 08-Apr-12

23-Mar-13 23-Mar-13

11-Apr-14 11-Apr-14

08-Apr-12 08-Apr-15

08-Apr-12 08-Apr-12

13-May-13 12-May-20

13-May-14 12-May-20

 – 

13-May-13 12-May-20

 – 

13-May-14 12-May-20

 – 

11-Apr-14 10-Apr-16

 – 

11-Apr-15 10-Apr-16

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

11-Apr-11

 144.70 

 – 

 734,278 

 – 

 734,278 

11-Apr-11

 144.70 

 – 

 734,278 

 – 

 734,278 

26-Apr-05

 126.50 

 304,348 

03-Apr-08

 123.20 

 426,137 

03-Apr-08

 123.20 

 93,104 

03-Apr-08

 122.89 

 186,661 

09-Apr-09

 63.30 

 48,906 

 – 

 – 

 – 

–

–

 304,348 

 426,137 

 93,104 

 186,661 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 – 

 126.50 

 139.70 

 40,174 

 123.20 

 – 

 – 

–

 48,906 

 32.00 

 139.65 

 130,020 

 – 

–

 – 

–

01-Jun-14 30-Nov-14

10,523,732   1,890,153 

 1,010,250   11,403,635 

 170,194 

1  On 10 November 2011, Mr Broadley exercised his share option granted on 10 November 2008. Mr Broadley sold 1,024,800 shares to cover the costs of exercise and 

his income tax and employees’ National Insurance Contribution liabilities and retained 290,989 shares.

2  Dividends are paid and the directors can vote the shares held under award during the vesting period.
3  Awards are subject to a claw-back provision under which the Committee may reduce the number of shares under option or award if financial results or business 
performance for which the director is responsible is found to have been materially incorrect or misleading or if undue risk was taken, resulting in financial loss  
to the Company.

4  As a result of the EPS and RoE based performance targets being met, the share options and forfeitable shares awards granted under the PSP on 8 April 2009 will 

vest on 8 April 2012.

5  Subject to the achievement of certain initiatives relating to the restructuring of the Group.
6  Subject to the fulfilment of performance targets, under which 50% of the award is subject to the financial performance of the Company’s Long-Term Savings 

business post restructuring and 50% of the award is subject to absolute TSR.

7  On 4 April 2011, Mr Roberts exercised his share option granted on 26 April 2005. Mr Roberts sold 291,569 shares to cover the costs of exercise and his income tax 

and employees’ National Insurance Contribution liabilities and retained 12,779 shares. 

8  As a result of the EPS-based performance targets not being met, the share options and bonus-matching restricted share awards granted on 3 April 2008 lapsed on 

8 March 2011.

9  On 4 April 2011, 93,104 shares were released to Mr Roberts in respect of the deferred short-term incentive restricted share award originally granted in April 2008. 

Mr Roberts sold 47,590 of these shares to cover his income tax and employees’ National Insurance Contribution liabilities and retained 45,514 shares.

10 The SAYE option price was determined as 20% below the average of the Company’s share price between 16 and 18 March 2009. The Company’s share price at the 

date of grant (9 April 2009) was 63.3p.

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Company share price performance
The market price of the Company’s shares was 135.50p at 30 December 2011 and ranged from a low of 98.05p to a high of 144.80p 
during 2011. 

Executive directors’ shareholding requirements 
During the year, the Committee reviewed and amended the guidelines on shareholdings by the executive directors of the Company. Under 
these, the Group Chief Executive is now expected to build up a holding of shares in the Company equal in value to at least 200% (formerly 
150%) of his annual basic salary within five years of appointment and the equivalent figure for other executive directors is 150% (formerly 100%) 
of their annual basic salaries. For the purposes of the calculations, share options and forfeitable shares awards are excluded.

The following table shows shares owned outright (including holdings by connected persons):

Salary at  
  31 Dec 2011 
(£) 

Price at  
  30 Dec 2011 
(p)

  Percentage 
holding 
 required

Minimum 
 number of 
 shares 
 required 
 to be held*

Personal  
  shares held at  
31 Dec 2011  
as a 
percentage 
  of basic salary*

 Personal 

  shares held at  
  31 Dec 2011 

Julian Roberts
Philip Broadley

 850,000 
 565,000 

135.50
135.50

200%  1,254,613 
 625,461 
150%

 1,128,633 
 412,178 

180%
99%

*  Calculated using the market price of Old Mutual plc shares on 30 December 2011, namely 135.50p, and the basic salaries of the executive directors at 31 December 

2011. 

Further information
Terms of engagement – executive directors 
The terms of engagement of the executive directors are considered by the Committee to provide a proper balance of responsibilities and 
security between the parties. The following is a summary of the main provisions:

Provision

Contract dates

Notice Period

Compensation for loss of office

Service contract

Julian Roberts – 23 January 2009, as amended on 22 November 2011 

Philip Broadley – 10 November 2008, as amended on 22 November 2011

Julian Roberts – 12 months by either the Company or the director

Philip Broadley – 12 months by the Company and 6 months by the director

Tailored to reflect the Company’s contractual obligations and the obligation 
on the part of the employee to mitigate loss

Compensation payable on early termination

No contractual provision

Terms of engagement – Chairman and non-executive directors
Patrick O’Sullivan entered into an engagement letter with the Company in August 2009 (as amended in December 2011) setting out the 
terms applicable to his role as Chairman from January 2010. Under these terms, subject to: (a) 12 months’ notice at any time given by either 
the Company or Patrick O’Sullivan, (b) his being duly re-elected at Annual General Meetings, and (c) the provisions of the Company’s 
Articles of Association relating to the removal of directors, his appointment is for an initial term of three years, renewable thereafter for a 
further three years (subject to the same provisos), followed by up to three additional one-year terms. 

The other non-executive directors are engaged on terms that may be terminated by either side without notice. However, it is envisaged that they 
will remain in place on a three-year cycle, in order to provide assurance to both the Company and the non-executive director concerned that the 
appointment is likely to continue. The renewal of non-executive directors’ terms for successive three-year cycles is not automatic, with the 
continued suitability of each non-executive director being assessed by the Nomination Committee. The Board has determined that, with effect 
from January 2012, non-executive directors’ engagements will be extended on an annual basis (for a maximum of three years) from the end of 
their second three-year cycle. 

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Governance

remuneration report
CONTINUED

The original dates of appointment and the dates when the current appointments of the non-executive directors are due to 
terminate are as follows:

Mike Arnold
Eva Castillo
Russell Edey
Alan Gillespie
Reuel Khoza
Roger Marshall
Bongani Nqwababa
Nku Nyembezi-Heita
Lars Otterbeck

Date of original
appointment

Date of current
appointment

1 Sep 2009
2 Feb 2011
24 Jun 2004
3 Nov 2010
27 Jan 2006
5 Aug 2010
1 Apr 2007
9 March 2012  
14 Nov 2006

1 Sep 2009
2 Feb 2011
24 Jun 2010
3 Nov 2010
27 Jan 2012
5 Aug 2010
1 Apr 2010
9 March 2012  
14 Nov 2009

Current term
as director

1st
1st
3rd
1st
3rd (1st year)
1st
2nd
1st
2nd

Date current
appointment
terminates

1 Sep 2012
2 Feb 2014
24 Jun 2013
3 Nov 2013
27 Jan 2013
5 Aug 2013
1 Apr 2013
9 March 2015
14 Nov 2012

Shareholder approval of the Remuneration Report
An advisory vote on the Remuneration Report will be put to shareholders at the AGM on 10 May 2012.

Russell Edey
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
On behalf of the Board
9 March 2012

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF ThE COMPANy

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
STATEMENT OF dIRECTORS’ RESPONSIbILITIES
in respect of the Annual Report and the financial statements

The directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the Group and Parent Company financial statements in 
accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare Group and Parent Company financial statements for each financial year. Under that 
law they are required to prepare the Group financial statements in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU and applicable law 
and have elected to prepare the Parent Company financial statements on the same basis.

Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair 
view of the state of affairs of the Group and Parent Company and of their profit or loss for that period. In preparing each of the Group 
and Parent Company financial statements, the directors are required to:

 ■ Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
 ■ Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
 ■ State whether they have been prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU; and
 ■ Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Group and the Parent 

Company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Parent Company’s 
transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Parent Company and enable them to 
ensure that its financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They have general responsibility for taking such steps as 
are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the Group and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

Under applicable law and regulations, the directors are also responsible for preparing a Directors’ Report, Directors’ Remuneration 
Report and Corporate Governance Statement that comply with that law and those regulations.

The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Company’s 
website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other 
jurisdictions.

The directors confirm that to the best of their knowledge:

 ■ The financial statements, prepared in accordance with the applicable set of accounting standards, give a true and fair view of the 

assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a 
whole; and

 ■ The Directors’ Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of  

Old Mutual plc and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the  
principal risks and uncertainties that they face.

Julian Roberts 
Group Chief Executive 
9 March 2012

Philip Broadley
Group Finance Director 

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
CONSOLIdATEd INCOME STATEMENT
For the year ended 31 December 2011

Revenue
Gross earned premiums
Outward reinsurance

Net earned premiums
Investment return (non-banking)
Banking interest and similar income
Banking trading, investment and similar income
Fee and commission income, and income from service activities
Other income

Total revenues

Expenses
Claims and benefits (including change in insurance contract provisions)
Reinsurance recoveries

Net claims and benefits incurred
Change in investment contract liabilities
Losses on loans and advances
Finance costs
Banking interest payable and similar expenses
Fee and commission expenses, and other acquisition costs
Other operating and administrative expenses
Goodwill impairment
Change in third-party interest in consolidated funds

Total expenses

Share of associated undertakings and joint ventures’ profit after tax
Profit/(loss) on acquisition/disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings 

and strategic investments

Profit before tax
Income tax expense

Profit from continuing operations after tax
Discontinued operations
Profit/(loss) from discontinued operations after tax

Profit/(loss) after tax for the financial year

Attributable to
Equity holders of the parent
Non-controlling interests

Ordinary shares
Preferred securities

Profit/(loss) after tax for the financial year

Earnings per share

Basic earnings per share based on profit from continuing operations (pence)
Basic earnings per share based on profit/(loss) from discontinued operations (pence)

Basic earnings per ordinary share (pence)

Diluted earnings per share based on profit from continuing operations (pence)
Diluted earnings per share based on profit/(loss) from discontinued operations (pence)

Diluted earnings per ordinary share (pence)

Weighted average number of shares – millions

* The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued (see note A2).

£m

Year ended 
 31 December 
2011 

Year ended 
  31 December 
2010*

Notes

B2

D2

D3

D4

D5

D6

D7

D8

D9

C1(b)

G5(b)

C1(c)

D1(a)

H1(a)

F11(a)

F11(a)

C3(a)

C3(a)

C3(a)

3,584
(325)

3,259
(567)
3,669
217
3,035
171

9,784

(3,331)
123

(3,208)
1,889
(458)
(58)
(2,095)
(1,007)
(3,852)
(264)
2

(9,051)

10

251

994
(225)

769

198

967

667

238
62

967

8.9
4.0

12.9

8.0
3.7

11.7

3,460
(300)

3,160
9,553
3,913
199
2,823
149

19,797

(4,956)
222

(4,734)
(5,833)
(548)
(269)
(2,441)
(917)
(3,643)
(1)
(299)

(18,685)

5

(22)

1,095
(391)

704

(728)

(24)

(282)

196
62

(24)

8.5
(15.0)

(6.5)

7.7
(13.8)

(6.1)

4,935

4,859

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Year ended 
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Year ended 
31 December
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Notes

967

(24)

39

28

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(6)
(22)
(1,240)
(49)
12

(1,239)
(161)

(1,400)

(433)

(408)

(87)
62

(433)

26

(87)

37
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(15)
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17
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873
278

1,151

1,127

594

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
CONSOLIdATEd STATEMENT  
OF COMPREhENSIVE INCOME 
For the year ended 31 December 2011

Profit/(loss) after tax for the financial year
Other comprehensive income for the financial year
Fair value gain/(losses)
Property revaluation

Net investment hedge
Available-for-sale investments
  Fair value (losses)/gains
  Recycled to the income statement

Shadow accounting
Currency translation differences/exchange differences on translating foreign operations
Other movements
Income tax relating to components of other comprehensive income

Total other comprehensive income for the financial year from continuing operations
Total other comprehensive income for the financial year from discontinued operations

D1(c)

H1(b)

Total other comprehensive income for the financial year

Total comprehensive income for the financial year

Attributable to
Equity holders of the parent
Non-controlling interests

Ordinary shares
Preferred securities

Total comprehensive income for the financial year

* The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued (see note A2).

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
RECONCILIATION OF AdjUSTEd OPERATINg  
PROFIT TO PROFIT AFTER TAx
For the year ended 31 December 2011

£m

Year ended
31 December
2011

Year ended
31 December
2010*

Notes

Core operations
Long-Term Savings
Nedbank
Mutual & Federal
USAM

Finance costs
Long-term investment return on excess assets
Net interest payable to non-core operations
Corporate costs
Other net (expenses)/income

Adjusted operating profit before tax
Adjusting items
Non-core operations

Profit before tax (net of policyholder tax)
Income tax attributable to policyholder returns

Profit before tax
Total tax expense

Profit from continuing operations after tax
Profit/(loss) from discontinued operations after tax

Profit/(loss) after tax for the financial year

B3

B3

B3

B3

C1(a)

B3

B3

D1(a)

H1(a)

793
755
89
67

1,704
(128)
37
(23)
(57)
(18)

1,515
(329)
(183)

1,003
(9)

994
(225)

769
198

967

Adjusted operating profit after tax attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent

787
601
103
72

1,563
(128)
31
(39)
(60)
4

1,371
(392)
15

994
101

1,095
(391)

704
(728)

(24)

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Tax on adjusted operating profit

Adjusted operating profit after tax

Non-controlling interests – ordinary shares
Non-controlling – preferred securities

Adjusted operating profit after tax attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent

Adjusted weighted average number of shares (millions)

Adjusted operating earnings per share (pence)

* The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued and non-core (see note A2).

Year ended
31 December
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Year ended 
  31 December 
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1,515
(341)

1,174

(257)
(62)

855

5,435

15.7

1,371
(327)

1,044

(217)
(62)

765

5,359

14.3

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The reconciliation of adjusted operating profit has been prepared so as to reflect the directors’ view of the underlying long-term performance 
of the Group. The statement reconciles adjusted operating profit to profit after tax as reported under IFRS as adopted by the EU.

For core life assurance and general insurance businesses, adjusted operating profit is based on a long-term investment return, including 
investment returns on life funds’ investments in Group equity and debt instruments, and is stated net of income tax attributable to 
policyholder returns. For the US Asset Management business it includes compensation costs in respect of certain long-term incentive 
schemes defined as non-controlling interests in accordance with IFRS. For all core businesses, adjusted operating profit excludes 
goodwill impairment, the impact of acquisition accounting, revaluations of put options related to long-term incentive schemes, profit/
(loss) on acquisition/disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic investments, and fair value profits/(losses) on certain 
Group debt movements but includes dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable securities. Bermuda, which is 
non-core, and Nordic and US Life, which are discontinued and non-core, are not included in adjusted operating profit. 

Adjusted operating earnings per share is calculated on the same basis as adjusted operating profit. It is stated after tax attributable 
to adjusted operating profit and non-controlling interests. It excludes income attributable to Black Economic Empowerment trusts of 
listed subsidiaries. The calculation of the adjusted weighted average number of shares includes own shares held in policyholders’ 
funds and Black Economic Empowerment trusts.

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CONSOLIdATEd STATEMENT  
OF FINANCIAL POSITION
At 31 December 2011

Assets
Goodwill and other intangible assets
Mandatory reserve deposits with central banks
Property, plant and equipment
Investment property
Deferred tax assets
Investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures
Deferred acquisition costs
Reinsurers’ share of policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Current tax receivable
Client indebtedness for acceptances
Trade, other receivables and other assets
Derivative financial instruments – assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Non-current assets held for sale

Total assets

Liabilities
Life assurance policyholder liabilities
General insurance liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidated funds
Borrowed funds
Provisions
Deferred revenue
Deferred tax liabilities
Current tax payable
Trade, other payables and other liabilities
Liabilities under acceptances
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities
Non-current liabilities held for sale

Total liabilities

Net assets

Shareholders’ equity
Equity attributable to equity holders of the parent

Non-controlling interests

Ordinary shares
Preferred securities

Total non-controlling interests

Total equity

£m

At 
31 December 
2011

At
31 December 
2010 

Notes

F1

F2

F3

F8(a)

G5

F4

E8

E3

E4

F5

E6

H2

E8

E8

E9

F6

F7

F8(b)

F9

E10

E6

H2

3,358
951
925
2,064
339
111
1,351
989
39,764
81,253
138
237
3,348
1,795
3,624
22,138

4,965
1,079
1,015
2,040
416
162
1,534
1,104
51,778
106,153
156
190
3,934
2,503
4,132
12,391

162,385

193,552

76,350
325
1,893
3,656
269
701
504
199
4,243
237
40,978
1,755
20,417

98,631
397
3,584
4,204
260
730
858
238
5,661
190
53,236
1,870
12,219

151,527

10,858

182,078

11,474

F10

8,488

8,951

F11(b)

F11(b)

1,652
718

2,370

10,858

1,763
760

2,523

11,474

The consolidated financial statements on pages 127 to 231 were approved by the Board of Directors on 9 March 2012.

Julian Roberts 
Group Chief Executive 

Philip Broadley
Group Finance Director

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
CONSOLIdATEd STATEMENT  
OF CASh FLOWS
For the year ended 31 December 2011

Cash flows from operating activities – continuing operations
Profit before tax 
Non-cash movements in profit before tax
Changes in working capital
Taxation paid

Net cash inflow from operating activities – continuing operations
Cash flows from investing activities
Net disposals/(acquisitions) of financial investments
Acquisition of investment properties
Proceeds from disposal of investment properties
Acquisition of property, plant and equipment
Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment
Acquisition of intangible assets
Acquisition of interests in subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic investments
Disposal of interests in subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic investments

Net cash outflow from investing activities – continuing operations
Cash flows from financing activities
Dividends paid to

Ordinary equity holders of the Company
Non-controlling interests and preferred security interests

Interest paid (excluding banking interest paid)
Proceeds from issue of ordinary shares (including by subsidiaries to non-controlling interests)
Net acquisition of treasury shares
Issue of subordinated and other debt
Subordinated and other debt repaid

Net cash outflow from financing activities – continuing operations

Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents – continuing operations
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents – discontinued operations
Effects of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the year

Cash and cash equivalents at end of the year

Consisting of
Cash and cash equivalents in the statement of financial position
Mandatory reserve deposits with central banks
Cash and cash equivalents included in assets held for sale

Total

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended 
31 December 
2010*

994
1,372
(1,415)
(402)

549

43
(57)
6
(184)
43
(91)
103
(329)

(466)

(97)
(206)
(87)
10
(17)
890
(905)

(412)

(329)
346
(594)
5,632

5,055

3,624
951

480
5,055

1,095
(515)
3,195
(356)

3,419

(2,349)
(162)
272
(145)
–
(76)
(75)
(16)

(2,551)

(102)
(196)
(79)
5
(25)
492
(104)

(9)

859
(364)
376
4,761

5,632

4,132
1,079

421
5,632

* The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued (see note A2).

Cash flows presented in this statement include all cash flows relating to policyholders’ funds for life assurance.

Except for mandatory reserve deposits with central banks of £951 million (2010: £1,079 million) and cash and cash equivalents 
subject to consolidation of funds of £756 million (2010: £689 million), management do not consider that there are any material 
amounts of cash and cash equivalents which are not available for use in the Group’s day-to-day operations. Mandatory reserve 
deposits are, however, included in cash and cash equivalents for the purposes of the cash flow statement in line with market practice 
in South Africa. 

Included within the above is interest income received (including banking interest) of £4,936 million (2010: £5,196 million),  
dividend income received of £371 million (2010: £360 million) and interest paid (including banking interest) of £2,143 million  
(2010: £2,198 million).

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CONSOLIdATEd STATEMENT  
OF ChANgES IN EQUITy
For the year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2011

Notes

Shareholders’ equity at beginning of the year
Profit after tax for the financial year
Other comprehensive income
Fair value gains/(losses)
Property revaluation
Net investment hedge
Available-for-sale investments

Fair value gains
Recycled to the income statement
Realised on disposal

Exchange differences realised on disposal
Shadow accounting
Currency translation differences/exchange differences 

on translating foreign operations

Other movements
Income tax relating to components of other comprehensive income

Total comprehensive income for the financial year
Dividends for the year
Other movements in share capital and share-based payment reserve
Merger reserve realised in the year
Change in participation in subsidiaries
Reclassification of translation differences on non-controlling 

D1(c)

C4

F11

interests

Shares issued in lieu of cash dividends

Transactions with shareholders

Shareholders’ equity at end of the year

Year ended 31 December 2010

Notes

Shareholders’ equity at beginning of the year
Loss after tax for the financial year
Other comprehensive income
Fair value gains/(losses)
Property revaluation
Net investment hedge
Available-for-sale investments

Fair value gains
Recycled to the income statement

Shadow accounting
Currency translation differences/exchange differences 

on translating foreign operations

Other movements
Income tax relating to components of other comprehensive income

Total comprehensive income for the financial year
Dividends for the year
Other movements in share capital and share-based payment reserve
Acquisition of non-controlling interest in Mutual & Federal
Change in participation in other subsidiaries
Shares issued in lieu of cash dividends

Transactions with shareholders

Shareholders’ equity at end of the year

D1(c)

C4

F11

F11

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Millions

Number of 
shares 
issued and 
fully paid

5,695
–

Share 
capital

Share 
premium

570
–

795
–

Merger 
reserve

2,845
–

–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–
–
–
7
–
–

–

99
106

5,801

Millions

Number of 
shares 
issued and 
fully paid

5,518
–

–
–

–
–
–

–
–

–
–
–
6
147
–
24

177

–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–

10
10

580

–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–
–
–
10
–
–

–

–
10

–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–
–
–
–
(313)
–

–

–
(313)

805

2,532

Share  
capital

Share 
premium

552
–

771
–

Merger 
reserve

2,716
–

–
–

–
–
–

–
–

–
–
–
1 
15
–
2

18

–
–

–
–
–

–
–

–
–
–
7
–
–
17

24

–
–

–
–
–

–
–

–
–
–
–
129
–
–

129

5,695

570

795

2,845

£m

Available-
for-sale 
reserve

225
–

–
–

51
(10)
(157)
–
(58)

–
–
2

(172)
–
–
–
–

–

–
–

53

£m

Available-  
for-sale 
reserve

82
–

–
–

562
(12)
(343)

–
2

(66)
143
–
–
–
–
–

–

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revaluation 
reserve

Share-based 
payments 
reserve

101
–

215
–

30
–

–
–
–
–
(7)

–
–
–

23
–
–
–
–

–
–

–

124

–
–

–
(1)
–
–
–

–
(34)
–

(35)
–
50
–
–

–
–

50

230

5
–

–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–

5

Other  

reserves

Translation 
reserve

Retained 
earnings

Perpetual 
preferred 
callable 
securities

Attributable  
to equity 
holders of  
the parent 

Total 
non-
controlling 
interests

1,176
–

2,331
635

688
32

8,951 
667

2,523
300

–
28

–
–
–
24
–

(970)
–
–

(918)
–
–
–
–

43
–

43

301

–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
15
–

650
(221)
(17)
313
–

–
114

189

3,170

–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
12

44
(44)
–
–
–

–
–

(44)

688

30
28

51
(11)
(157)
24
(65)

(970)
(19)
14

(408)
(265)
43
–
–

43
124

(55)

9
–

(1)
–
–
–
–

(313)
(20)
–

(25)
(162)
16
–
61

(43)
–

(128)

8,488

2,370

10,858

Property 
revaluation 
reserve

Share-based 
payments 
reserve

Other  

reserves

Translation 
reserve

Retained 
earnings

2,897
(314)

Perpetual 
preferred 
callable 
securities

688
32

Attributable  
to equity  
holders of  
the parent 

8,464
(282)

Total 
non-controlling 
interests

2,247
258

87
–

21
–

–
–
(6)

–
(1)

–
14

–
–
–
–

–

191
–

–
–

–
–
–

–
20

–
20

4
–
–
–

4

101

215

11
–

–
–

–
–
–

–
(6)

–
(6)

–
–
–
–

–

5

469
–

–
(87)

–
–
–

794
–

–
707
–
–
–
–
–

–

–
–

–
–
–

–
(14)

–
(328)
(131)
(25)
(93)
–
11

(238)

–
–

–
–
–

–
–

12
44
(44)
–
–
–
–

 (44)

688

21
(87)

562
(12)
(349)

794
1

(54)
594
(175)
(13)
51
–
30

(107)

5
–

–
–
–

274
(4)

–
533
(152)
3
(51)
(57)
–

(257)

1,176

2,331

8,951 

2,523

11,474

Retained earnings were reduced in respect of own shares held in policyholders’ funds, ESOP trusts, Black Economic Empowerment 
trusts and other related undertakings at 31 December 2011 by £501 million (2010: £478 million).

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£m

Total  
equity 

11,474
967

39
28

50
(11)
(157)
24
(65)

(1,283)
(39)
14

(433)
(427)
59
–
61

–
124

(183)

£m

Total  
equity 

10,711
(24)

26
(87)

562
(12)
(349)

1,068
(3)

(54)
1,127
(327)
(10)
–
(57)
30

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011

A: Significant accounting policies
A1: Basis of preparation
Statement of compliance
Old Mutual plc (the Company) is a company incorporated in England and Wales.

The Group financial statements consolidate those of the Company and its subsidiaries (together referred to as the ‘Group’) and 
equity account the Group’s interest in associates and jointly controlled entities (other than those held by life assurance funds which 
are accounted for as investments). The Parent Company financial statements present information about the Company as a separate 
entity and not about the Group.

Both the Parent Company financial statements and the Group financial statements have been prepared and approved by the 
directors in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the EU. On publishing the Parent Company 
financial statements here together with the Group financial statements, the Company is taking advantage of the exemption in section 
408 of the Companies Act 2006 not to present its individual income statement and related notes that form a part of these approved 
financial statements.

The accounting policies adopted by the Company and Group, unless otherwise stated, have been applied consistently to all periods 
presented in these consolidated financial statements. 

The financial statements are prepared on the historical cost basis except that the following assets and liabilities are stated at their fair 
value: derivative financial instruments, financial assets and liabilities designated as fair value through the income statement or as 
available-for-sale, owner-occupied property and investment property. Non-current assets and disposal groups held for sale are 
stated at the lower of the previous carrying amount and the fair value less costs to sell.

The Parent Company financial statements are prepared in accordance with these accounting policies, other than for investments in 
subsidiary undertakings and associates, which are stated at cost less impairments (see note A5(n)), in accordance with IAS 27.

The Company and Group financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis which the directors believe to be 
appropriate having taken into consideration the points as set out in the Directors’ Report in the section headed Going concern.

Judgements made by the directors in the applications of these accounting policies that have a significant effect on the financial 
statements and estimates with a significant risk of material adjustment in the next year are discussed in note A3.

Translation of foreign operations
The assets and liabilities of foreign operations are translated from their respective functional currencies into the Group’s presentation 
currency using the year end exchange rates, and their income and expenses using the average exchange rates. Other than in 
respect of cumulative translation gains and losses up to 1 January 2004, cumulative unrealised gains or losses resulting from 
translation of functional currencies to the presentation currency are included as a separate component of shareholders’ equity. To 
the extent that these gains and losses are effectively hedged, the cumulative effect of such gains and losses arising on the hedging 
instruments are also included in that component of shareholders’ equity. Upon the disposal of subsidiaries the cumulative amount of 
exchange differences deferred in shareholders’ equity, net of attributable amounts in relation to net investments, is recognised in the 
income statement. Cumulative translation gains and losses up to 1 January 2004 were reset to zero.

Developments during 2011
Other than changes arising from new accounting developments as mentioned in note A9, the Group has not made any changes to 
the accounting policies during the year. Disclosures about the impact of future standards can be found in note A10.

These financial statements describe those accounting policies which involve significant judgement, optionality in application and are 
material to the Group’s overall financial statements. As such items which are immaterial or duplicated elsewhere in the annual report 
have been removed from these financial statements.

A detailed list of the Group’s accounting policies can be found at www.oldmutual.com. The contents of the website are not subject 
to audit.

A2: Significant corporate activity and business changes
Disposal of US Life
As previously reported, at 31 December 2010 the Group was in advanced stage negotiations for the disposal of its life assurance 
operations in the United States, which represented almost the entirety of the US Life operating segment. Following US regulatory 
approval the disposal of US Life was completed on 7 April 2011. The sale represented the Group’s exit from the life assurance market 
in the United States and therefore met the criteria of a discontinued operation. For the purposes of adjusted operating profit US Life 
has been classified as a discontinued and non-core operation and consequently is not included.

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Skandia Liv and the disposal of Nordic
In line with previous periods the consolidated financial statements do not include the company Livförsäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia 
(Skandia Liv) and its subsidiaries. Skandia Liv’s business is a mutual life assurance company that is highly regulated within a strict legal 
framework for mutual life assurance companies in Sweden, particularly in relation to its relationship with its holding company. The Group 
does not have the power to control Skandia Liv in such a way as to access the benefits usually associated with share ownership due to 
the legal and regulatory restrictions. Those benefits accrue to the policyholders of Skandia Liv. Consequently, Skandia Liv is not 
consolidated. The shares in Skandia Liv are accounted for in accordance with the accounting policies for equity financial instruments.

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As announced on 15 December 2011, the Group has agreed to sell the Nordic business unit comprising the life assurance, asset 
management and banking operations in Sweden, Denmark and Norway to Skandia Liv. As a result the assets and liabilities of the 
Nordic disposal group have been classified as held for sale in the statement of financial position for the current year in accordance 
with IFRS 5. This sale will result in the Group’s exit from the life assurance, asset management and banking operations in the Nordic 
region and therefore meets the criteria of a discontinued operation. Consequently the comparative information in the income 
statement, statement of comprehensive income, statement of cash flows and the related notes have been restated where applicable 
to reflect this. For the purposes of adjusted operating profit, Nordic has been reclassified as a discontinued and non-core operation 
for the year ended 31 December 2011 with the comparative restated accordingly. 

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Disposal of the Finnish branch in Wealth Management
On 21 December 2011 the Group announced that it had agreed terms to sell the Finnish branch of Wealth Management to  
OP-Pohjola osk. As a result of this the assets and liabilities of the Finnish branch have been classified as held for sale in the 
statement of financial position for the current year.

Further details of the impact for discontinued operations and disposal groups are provided in notes H1 and H2. In addition, certain 
comparative information has been revised in accordance with changes to presentation made in the current year.

Consolidation of other African businesses
In preparing the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010 the Emerging Markets segment included its 
South African and Namibian businesses but excluded all other African businesses. This was consistent with prior periods. Nedbank 
and Mutual & Federal consolidated the results of all African businesses under their control. 

Following a period of greater political and currency stability in Zimbabwe and an expectation that the Group will be able to extract 
benefits from its Zimbabwean business the Group re-evaluated its ability to control this business within the meaning of accounting 
standards. As a result the Group’s Zimbabwean business has been consolidated for the first time together with operations in Kenya, 
Malawi, Swaziland and Nigeria (collectively the other African businesses), with this being effective from 1 January 2011. 

The acquisition has been accounted for at the net asset value of the underlying businesses on 1 January 2011, being the fair value of 
the Group’s investment in these operations for the assets and liabilities acquired. Deemed consideration for the acquisition is the fair 
value of the Group’s investment immediately prior to control. The result was a gain for the Group in these businesses that is 
accounted for as a profit on acquisition in the year. This profit has been excluded from adjusted operating profit. On initial recognition 
the assets directly associated with other African businesses consisted of £290 million of investment property, £576 million of 
investments and securities and £115 million of other assets, with liabilities at this time being £624 million of policyholder liabilities and 
£108 million of other liabilities.

The trading results of the other African businesses for the year ending 31 December 2011 have been included in the Group’s income 
statement and adjusted operating profit. In anticipation of the indigenisation of the Zimbabwe business a non-controlling interest 
adjustment has been included for this operation in respect of adjusted operating profit to reflect the most likely expected indigenous 
shareholding to be provided. At 31 December 2011 the Group retained a 100% holding in the ordinary shares of Zimbabwe and 
consequently the operation has been consolidated as a wholly owned subsidiary for the purposes of IFRS reporting.

A3: Critical accounting estimates and judgements
In the preparation of the financial statements the Group is required to make estimates and judgements that affect items reported in 
the consolidated income statement, statement of financial position, other primary statements and related supporting notes.

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

A: Significant accounting policies continued
A3: Critical accounting estimates and judgements continued
Critical accounting estimates and judgements are those which involve the most complex or subjective judgements or assessments, 
with estimates based on knowledge of the current situation and circumstances and assumptions based on that knowledge and 
predictions of future events and actions. The areas of the Group’s business that typically require such estimates and the relevant 
accounting policies and notes are as follows:

Area

Life insurance contract provisions
Deferred acquisition costs
Fair value for financial assets and liabilities
Intangible assets and goodwill
Non consolidation of wholly owned mutual life insurance undertaking

Accounting policy

A4
A4
A5
A6
A2

Note

E8
F4
E1
F1
G3

Specific areas requiring estimates and judgements are provided in more detail below.

(a) Bermuda guarantees
Old Mutual Bermuda, which is closed to new business, previously offered variable annuity products with a number of these 
remaining in place. For variable annuity contracts with guaranteed minimum accumulation benefits (GMABs) there are risks to the 
Group, with significant volatility in financial results possible due to changes in key market and economic variables, as well as 
unexpected policyholder behaviour. 

Short-term liquidity risk in relation to the GMABs is further increased by potentially significant product top-ups in 2012 and 2013 on 
the fifth anniversary of the Universal Guarantee Option (UGO) contracts. The top ups relate to an automatic exercise feature included 
in these products under which policyholders receive any shortfall between the account value and 105% of the original premium paid 
by the policyholder on the fifth anniversary of the contract. In addition for UGO contracts there are 120% top ups for the tenth 
anniversary, plus any high water mark features if elected.

Analysis of Bermuda policyholder liabilities is detailed below:

Variable annuity contract balances
GMAB provision
Deferred and fixed index annuities

Total insurance liabilities – Bermuda

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At 
 31 December 
2010 

2,012
682
412

3,106

2,895
433
605

3,933

GMAB and guaranteed minimum death benefit reserve calculations rely on the mapping of policyholder investment funds to 
hedgeable indices to determine market consistent assumptions and are performed at least quarterly. Regular fund mapping ensures 
that exposures to relevant markets are accurately reflected in the determination of the reserves. The fund mapping is especially 
important to identify exposures to Asian and other emerging markets which require higher levels of reserving given their higher 
inherent volatility. 

Bermuda’s current best estimate for future cash flow requirements at 31 December 2011 is that £619 million of its holding in affiliated 
notes issued by the Parent may eventually need to be converted to cash. The notes are forecast to be redeemed starting from 2013, 
with £86 million required before 2017, £488 million between 2017 and 2018 and an additional £45 million up to 2029. The increase in 
this estimate from 31 December 2010 is due to lower initial assets and lower expected future income. Taking an average of the 10% 
worst case scenarios it would be expected that £1,125 million is required, being an additional requirement of £506 million, which 
would exceed the current value of notes held and forecast interest to be earned by 2017 and so require additional funding from the 
Group. Statutory capital reduced to £187 million at 31 December 2011 reflecting the loss for the year (2010: £402 million).

Surrenders of variable annuity contracts with GMABs are influenced by the differential between the account value of the underlying 
funds and the nominal level of the guarantee, along with the financial circumstances of each policyholder. Despite the volatility 
experienced in the markets during the second half of 2011, the actual surrenders of UGO contracts for the year ended 31 December 
2011 increased by over 250% compared to the prior year. This increase was partially attributable to special surrender and asset 
transfer offers made to policyholders as part of de-risking initiatives implemented during 2011. 

Surrender activity will have a significant impact on the speed of the run-off as well as the extent and timing of any associated capital 
requirements in the form of cash released from investments for this business. Group and local management actively monitor 
surrender behaviour and manage liquidity risk.

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Bermuda is continuing its run-off strategy with attention to the adequacy of the hedging strategy, focusing on market segments that 
are considered vulnerable whilst conserving liquidity by removing hedges on stronger market segments. The hedging programme is 
dynamically managed to strike a balance between reserve and income statement volatility, liquidity and transactional costs. 
Exposures are primarily to Asian equities and currencies versus the US dollar. At 31 December 2011 this strategy meant the hedge 
coverage over equities was approximately 54% (2010: 57%), over foreign exchange was 53% (2010: 39%), whilst interest rates remain 
unhedged (2010: nil). The dynamic management of these risks includes evaluating the most appropriate level of hedges on a 
continuing basis, with any proposed changes to the strategy subject to strict oversight. The stop-loss protocol continues to be 
monitored daily by local management and Group to measure the impact of equity and exchange rate movements on the GMAB 
reserves and hedging assets. 

In March 2012 Bermuda enhanced its hedging strategy by implementing an option based hedging arrangement to protect against 
downside risk from equity market movements relating to the five year anniversary of UGO contract top-up obligations, replacing the futures 
based hedging strategy previously employed. The existing hedging strategy will remain in place for the rest of the variable annuity book, 
with the exposure to currency movements impacting the five year anniversary top-ups continuing to be dynamically hedged. The enhanced 
hedging strategy aims to provide greater cash flow certainty over the period when the five year anniversary UGO top-up payments fall due.

(b) US Asset Management goodwill impairment
The impairment test in respect of the US Asset Management (USAM) has been performed by comparing USAM’s carrying amount to 
its recoverable amount, which is the higher of its fair value less costs to sell and its value-in-use. Value-in-use has been determined 
using a discounted cash flow methodology. The key assumptions used in the value-in-use calculations for USAM are as follows: 

 ■ The three year business plan and two further years have growth rate assumptions based on management’s expectation of 

performance over this period. A terminal value, using a long-term growth rate of 4% (2010: 6%) is added for the value of cash flows 
beyond five years. The assumed long-term growth rate was determined with reference to nominal historical gross domestic 
product (GDP) growth in the US, and the outlook for nominal GDP growth for the US. 

 ■ The risk-adjusted discount rate applied was 12% (2010: 12.9%).

Based on the expected impact from the adverse outlook for US nominal GDP growth and net cash outflows experienced by USAM 
in 2011 the long-term growth rate was reduced for the purposes of the 2011 impairment test. As a result of the change in the growth 
rate assumptions and the reduction in near term client cash flows, an impairment charge has been recognised to reflect the 
reduction in value-in-use for USAM with a charge of £264 million being recognised in the year (2010: £nil).

(c) Discretionary reserves
Management has discretion in managing exposure to financial options and guarantees, particularly within participating business. As 
required by the applicable Actuarial Society of South Africa guidance note, the time value of the financial options and guarantees 
included in the statutory reserves in the Emerging Markets businesses at 31 December 2011 have been valued using a risk-neutral 
market consistent asset model and is referred to as the Investment Guarantee Reserve (IGR). This reserve includes a discretionary 
margin as defined by local guidelines to allow for the sensitivity of the reserve to future interest rate and equity market movements. 
Further detail is provided in the Old Mutual audited Market Consistent Embedded Value supplementary basis information section.

(d) Provisions for impairment of loans and advances
The majority of loans and advances are in respect of Nedbank, which assesses its loan portfolios for impairment at each financial 
reporting data.

The impairment for performing loans is calculated on a portfolio basis, based on historical loss ratios, adjusted for national and 
industry specific economic conditions and other indicators present at the reporting date that correlate with defaults on the portfolio.

These include early arrears and other indicators of potential default, such as changes in macroeconomic conditions and legislation 
affecting credit recovery. These annual loss ratios are applied to loan balances in the portfolio and scaled to the estimated loss 
emergence period.

For portfolios which comprise large numbers of small homogenous assets with similar risk characteristics where credit scoring 
techniques are generally used, statistical techniques are used to calculate impairment allowances on the portfolio, based on 
historical recovery rates and assumed emergence periods. There are many models in use, each tailored to a product, line of 
business or client category. Judgement and knowledge is needed in selecting the statistical methods to use when the models are 
developed or revised.

For larger exposures impairment allowances are calculated on an individual basis and all relevant considerations that have a bearing 
on the expected future cash flows are taken into account. The level of impairment allowance is the difference between the value of 
the discounted expected future cash flows and its carrying amount. Subjective judgements are made in the calculations of future 
cash flows and change with time as new information becomes available or as strategies evolve, resulting in frequent revisions to the 
impairment provision as individual decisions are taken. 

Further detail is provided in note E3.

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

A: Significant accounting policies continued
A3: Critical accounting estimates and judgements continued
(e) Tax
Income tax on the profit or loss for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Income tax is recognised in the income statement 
except to the extent that it relates to items recognised directly in other comprehensive income, in which case it is correspondingly 
recognised in other comprehensive income. 

The Group is regularly in discussion with the respective tax authorities in each of the jurisdictions where the Group is active. In 
certain circumstances the Group applies its judgement to determine if a provision for future tax should be raised. The Group reviews 
any potential exposure to tax authorities under the requirements of IAS 37 to determine if a provision should be recognised. The 
measurement of any provisions for future taxes is based on the Group’s assessment of the specific circumstances and it applies 
judgement to determine the most likely outcome of its discussions with the relevant tax authorities. As these provisions are based on 
estimates and rely on judgements made by the Group, the actual amount of future taxes paid by the Group could be different to the 
amounts provided.

A4: Insurance and investment contracts
Life assurance
(a) Classification of contracts
Contracts sold as life assurance (with the exception of unit-linked assurance contracts) are categorised into insurance contracts, 
contracts with a discretionary participation feature or investment contracts, being in accordance with the classification criteria set out 
in the following paragraphs.

For the Group’s unit-linked assurance business, contracts are separated into an insurance component and an investment 
component (known as ‘unbundling’), and each unbundled component is accounted for separately in accordance with the accounting 
policy for that component. Unit-linked assurance contracts are savings contracts with a small or insignificant component of 
insurance risk.

Contracts under which the transfer of insurance risk to the Group from the policyholder is not significant are classified as investment 
contracts. Such contracts include savings and/or investment contracts sold without life assurance protection.

Contracts under which the Group accepts significant insurance risk from another party (the policyholder) by agreeing to compensate 
the policyholder or other beneficiary if a specified uncertain future event (the insured event) adversely affects the policyholder are 
classified as insurance contracts. Insurance risk is risk other than financial risk. Contracts accounted for as insurance contracts 
include life assurance contracts and savings contracts providing more than an insignificant amount of life assurance protection.

Financial risk is the risk of a possible future change in one or more of a specified interest rate, security price, security index, 
commodity price, foreign exchange rate, index of prices or rates, a credit rating or credit index, or other variable, provided in the case 
of a non-financial variable that the variable is not specific to a party to the contract.

Contracts with a discretionary participating feature are those under which the policyholder holds a contractual right to receive 
additional payments as a supplement to guaranteed minimum payments. These additional payments, the amount or timing of which 
is at the Group’s discretion, represent a significant portion of the total contractual payments and are contractually based on (1) the 
performance of a specified pool of contracts or a specified type of contract, (2) realised and/or unrealised investment returns on a 
specified pool of assets held by the Group or (3) the profit or loss of the Group. Investment contracts with discretionary participating 
features, which have no life assurance protection in the policy terms, are accounted for in the same manner as insurance contracts.

(b) Premiums on life assurance 
Premiums and annuity considerations receivable under insurance contracts and investment contracts with a discretionary 
participating feature are stated gross of commission, and exclude taxes and levies. Premiums in respect of linked insurance 
contracts are recognised when the liability is established. Premiums in respect of other insurance contracts and investment contracts 
with a discretionary participation feature are recognised when due for payment.

Outward reinsurance premiums are recognised when due for payment.

Amounts received under investment contracts other than those with a discretionary participating feature and unit-linked assurance 
contracts are recorded as deposits and credited directly to investment contract liabilities.

(c) Revenue on investment management service contracts
Fees charged for investment management services provided in conjunction with an investment contract are recognised as revenue 
as the services are provided. Initial fees, which exceed the level of recurring fees and relate to the future provision of services, are 
deferred and amortised over the anticipated period in which services will be provided. Fees charged for investment management 
service contracts by asset management businesses are also recognised on this basis.

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(d) Claims paid on life assurance
Claims paid under insurance contracts and investment contracts with a discretionary participating feature include maturities, 
annuities, surrenders, death and disability payments.

Maturity and annuity claims are recorded as they fall due for payment. Death and disability claims and surrenders are accounted for 
when notified.

Reinsurance recoveries are accounted for in the same period as the related claim.

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Amounts paid under investment contracts other than those with a discretionary participating feature and unit-linked assurance 
contracts are recorded as deductions from investment contract liabilities.

(e) Insurance contract provisions
Insurance contract provisions for African businesses have been computed using a gross premium valuation method. Provisions in 
respect of African business have been made in accordance with the Financial Soundness Valuation basis as set out in the guidelines 
issued by the Actuarial Society of South Africa in Professional Guidance Note (PGN) 104 (2001). Under this guideline, provisions are 
valued using realistic expectations of future experience, with margins for prudence and deferral of profit emergence.

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Provisions for investment contracts with a discretionary participating feature are also computed using the gross premium valuation 
method in accordance with the Financial Soundness Valuation basis. Surplus allocated to policyholders but not yet distributed 
related to these contracts is included as part of life assurance policyholder liabilities.

Reserves on immediate annuities and guaranteed payments are computed on the prospective deposit method, which produces 
reserves equal to the present value of future benefit payments.

For other territories, the valuation bases adopted are in accordance with local actuarial practices and methodologies.

Derivatives embedded in an insurance contract are not separated and measured at fair value if the embedded derivative itself 
qualifies for recognition as an insurance contract. In this case the entire contract is measured as described above.

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The Group performs liability adequacy testing at a business unit level on its insurance liabilities to ensure that the carrying amount of 
its liabilities (less related deferred acquisition costs and intangible assets) is sufficient in view of estimated future cash flows. When 
performing the liability adequacy test, the Group discounts all contractual cash flows and compares this amount to the carrying value 
of the liability at discount rates appropriate to the business in question. Where a shortfall is identified, an additional provision is made.

The provision estimation techniques and assumptions are periodically reviewed, with any changes in estimates reflected in the 
income statement as they occur.

Whilst the directors consider that the gross insurance contract provisions and the related reinsurance recoveries are fairly stated on 
the basis of the information currently available to them, the ultimate liability will vary as a result of subsequent information and events 
and may result in significant adjustments to the amount provided.

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measurement of the policyholder liability depends directly on the value of owner-occupied property and the unrealised gains and 
losses on such property, which are recognised in other comprehensive income. The shadow accounting adjustment to insurance 
contract provisions is recognised in other comprehensive income to the extent that the unrealised gains or losses on owner-
occupied property backing insurance contract provisions are also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

Financial guarantee contracts are recognised as insurance contracts. Liability adequacy testing is performed to ensure that the 
carrying amount of the liability for financial guarantee contracts is sufficient.

(f) Investment contract liabilities
Investment contract liabilities in respect of the Group’s non-linked business are recorded at amortised cost unless they are 
designated at fair value through the income statement in order to eliminate or significantly reduce a measurement or recognition 
inconsistency, for example where the corresponding assets are recorded at fair value through the income statement.

Investment contract liabilities in respect of the Group’s linked business are recorded at fair value. For such liabilities, including the 
deposit component of unbundled unit-linked assurance contracts, fair value is calculated as the account balance, which is the value 
of the units allocated to the policyholder, based on the bid price of the assets in the underlying fund (adjusted for tax).

Investment contract liabilities measured at fair value are subject to a ‘deposit floor’ such that the liability established cannot be less 
than the amount repayable on demand.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

A: Significant accounting policies continued
A4: Insurance and investment contracts continued
(g) Acquisition costs
Acquisition costs for insurance contracts comprise all direct and indirect costs arising from the sale of insurance contracts.

As the gross premium valuation method used in African territories to determine insurance contract provisions makes implicit 
allowance for the deferral of acquisition costs, no explicit deferred acquisition cost asset is recognised in the statement of financial 
position for the contracts issued in these areas.

Deferral of costs on insurance business in other territories is limited to the extent that they are deemed recoverable from available 
future margins.

(h) Costs incurred in acquiring investment management service contracts
Incremental costs that are directly attributable to securing an investment management service contract are recognised as an asset if they can 
be identified separately and measured reliably and it is probable that they will be recovered. Deferred acquisition costs represent the 
contractual right to benefit from providing investment management services and are amortised as the related revenue is recognised. Costs 
attributable to investment management service contracts in the asset management businesses are also recognised on this basis.

General insurance
Contracts under which the Group accepts significant insurance risk from another party and are not classified as Life Insurance are 
classified as General insurance. All classes of general insurance business are accounted for on an annual basis.

(i) Premiums on general insurance
Premiums stated gross of commissions exclude taxes and levies and are accounted for in the period in which the risk commences. 
The proportion of the premiums written relating to periods of risk after the reporting date is carried forward to subsequent 
accounting periods as unearned premiums, so that earned premiums relate to risks carried during the accounting period.

Outward reinsurance premiums are accounted for in the same accounting period as the premiums for the related direct insurance.

(j) Claims on general insurance
Claims incurred comprise the settlement and handling costs of paid and outstanding claims arising during the year and adjustments 
to prior year claim provisions. Outstanding claims comprise claims incurred up to, but not paid, at the end of the accounting period, 
whether reported or not.

Outstanding claims do not include any provision for possible future claims where the claims arise under contracts not in existence at 
the reporting date.

The Group performs liability adequacy testing at a business unit level on its claim liabilities to ensure that the carrying amount of its 
liabilities (less related deferred acquisition costs and the unearned premium reserve) is sufficient in view of estimated future cash flows.

Whilst the directors consider that the gross provisions for claims and the related reinsurance recoveries are fairly stated on the basis 
of the information currently available to them, the ultimate liability will vary as a result of subsequent information and events, and may 
result in significant adjustments to the amount provided. Adjustments to the amounts of claims provisions established in prior years 
are reflected in the financial statements for the period in which the adjustments are made, and disclosed separately if material. The 
methods used and estimates made are reviewed regularly.

(k) Acquisition costs on general insurance
Acquisition costs, which represent commission and other related expenses, are deferred and amortised over the period in which the 
related premiums are earned.

(l) Reinsurance
The Group cedes reinsurance in the normal course of business for the purpose of limiting its net loss potential through the 
diversification of its risks. Assets, liabilities and income and expense arising from ceded reinsurance contracts are presented 
separately from the related assets, liabilities, income and expense from the related insurance contracts because the reinsurance 
arrangements do not relieve the Group from its direct obligations to its policyholders.

Only rights under contracts that give rise to a significant transfer of insurance risk are accounted for as reinsurance assets. Rights 
under contracts that do not transfer significant insurance risk are accounted for as financial instruments.

Reinsurance premiums for ceded reinsurance are recognised as an expense on a basis that is consistent with the recognition basis 
for the premiums on the related insurance contracts. For general insurance business, reinsurance premiums are expensed over the 
period that the reinsurance cover is provided based on the expected pattern of the reinsured risks. The unexpensed portion of ceded 
reinsurance premiums is included in reinsurance assets.
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The net amounts paid to a reinsurer at the inception of a contract may be less than the reinsurance assets recognised by the Group 
in respect of its rights under such contracts. Any difference between the premium due to the reinsurer and the reinsurance asset 
recognised is included in the income statement in the period in which the reinsurance premium is due.

The amounts recognised as reinsurance assets are measured on a basis that is consistent with the measurement of the provisions 
held in respect of the related insurance contracts. Reinsurance assets include recoveries due from reinsurance companies in respect 
of claims paid.

Reinsurance assets are assessed for impairment at each reporting date. An asset is deemed impaired if there is objective evidence, 
as a result of an event that occurred after its initial recognition, that the Group may not recover all amounts due, and that the event 
has a reliably measurable impact on the amounts that the Group will receive from the reinsurer.

A5: Financial instruments
(a) Recognition and de-recognition
A financial asset or liability is recognised when, and only when, the Group becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the 
financial instrument.

The Group de-recognises a financial asset when, and only when:

 ■ The contractual rights to the cash flows arising from the financial assets have expired or been forfeited by the Group; or
 ■ It transfers the financial asset including substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership of the asset; or
 ■ It no longer controls the financial asset nor retains substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership, regardless of whether it has 

transferred the asset.

A financial liability is de-recognised when and only when the liability is extinguished, that is, when the obligation specified in the 
contract is discharged, assigned, cancelled or has expired.

The difference between the carrying amount of a financial liability (or part thereof) extinguished or transferred to another party and 
consideration received, including any non-cash assets transferred or liabilities assumed, is recognised in the income statement.

All purchases and sales of financial assets that require delivery within the timeframe established by regulation or market convention 
(‘regular way’ purchases and sales) are recognised at trade date, which is the date that the Group commits to purchase or sell the 
asset. Otherwise such transactions are treated as derivatives until settlement occurs. Loans and receivables are recognised (at fair 
value plus attributable transaction costs) when cash is advanced to borrowers.

(b) Initial measurement
Financial instruments are initially recognised at fair value plus, in the case of a financial asset or financial liability not at fair value 
through the income statement, transaction costs that are directly attributable to the acquisition or issue of the financial asset or 
financial liability.

(c) Derivative financial instruments
Derivative financial instruments are recognised in the statement of financial position at fair value. Fair values are obtained from quoted 
market prices, discounted cash flow models and option pricing models as appropriate. All derivatives are carried as assets when 
their fair value is positive and as liabilities when their fair value is negative.

Changes in the fair value of derivatives not designated as hedges for hedge accounting purposes are included in investment income 
or finance costs as appropriate.

(d) Hedge accounting
Qualifying hedging instruments must either be derivative financial instruments or non-derivative financial instruments used to hedge 
the risk of changes in foreign currency exchange rates, changes in fair value or changes in cash flows. Changes in the value of the 
financial instrument should be expected to offset changes in the fair value or cash flows of the underlying hedged item.

The Group designates certain qualifying hedging instruments as either (1) a hedge of the exposure to changes in fair value of a 
recognised asset or liability or an unrecognised firm commitment (fair value hedge); (2) a hedge of a future cash flow attributable to a 
recognised asset or liability, or a forecasted transaction, and could affect profit or loss (cash flow hedge); or, (3) a hedge of a net 
investment in a foreign operation. Hedge accounting is used for qualifying hedging instruments designated in this way provided 
certain criteria are met.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

A: Significant accounting policies continued
A5: Financial instruments continued
The Group’s criteria in accordance with reporting standards for a qualifying hedging instrument to be accounted for as a hedge include:

 ■ Upfront formal documentation of the hedging instrument, hedged item or transaction, risk management objective and strategy, the 
nature of the risk being hedged and the effectiveness measurement methodology that will be applied is prepared before hedge 
accounting is adopted.

 ■ The hedge is documented showing that it is expected to be highly effective in offsetting the changes in the fair value or cash flows 
attributable to the hedged risk, consistent with the risk management and strategy detailed in the upfront hedge documentation.

 ■ The effectiveness of the hedge can be reliably measured.
 ■ The hedge is assessed and determined to have been highly effective on an ongoing basis.
 ■ For cash flow hedges of a forecast transaction, an assessment that it is highly probable that the hedged transaction will occur and 

will carry profit and loss risk. 

Changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as fair value hedges and that prove to be highly effective in 
relation to hedged risk, are recorded in the income statement, along with the corresponding change in fair value of the hedged asset 
or liability that is attributable to that specific hedged risk.

Changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges or hedges of a net investment in a 
foreign operation and that prove to be highly effective in relation to the hedged risk are recognised in other comprehensive income.

If the hedge no longer meets the criteria for hedge accounting, hedge accounting is discontinued prospectively. Any previous 
adjustment to the carrying amount of a hedged interest-bearing financial instrument carried at amortised cost (as a result of previous 
hedge accounting) is amortised in the income statement from the date hedge accounting ceases, to the maturity date of the financial 
instrument, based on the effective interest method.

For hedges of a net investment in a foreign operation, any cumulative gains or losses in equity are recognised in the income 
statement on disposal of the foreign operation.

(e) Embedded derivatives
Certain derivatives embedded in financial and non-financial instruments, such as the conversion option in a convertible bond, are 
treated as separate derivatives and recognised as such on a stand alone basis, when their risks and characteristics are not closely 
related to those of the host contract and the host contract is not carried at fair value with unrealised gains and losses reported in the 
income statement. If it is not possible to determine the fair value of the embedded derivative, the entire hybrid instrument is 
categorised as fair value through the income statement and measured at fair value.

(f) Offsetting financial instruments and related income
Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amount reported in the statement of financial position only when there is a legally 
enforceable right to set off and there is intention to settle on a net basis, or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Income and expense items are offset only to the extent that their related instruments have been offset in the statement of financial position, 
with the exception of those relating to hedges, which are disclosed in accordance with the income statement effect of the hedged item.

(g) Interest income and expense
Interest income and expense in relation to financial instruments carried at amortised cost or held as available-for-sale is recognised 
in the income statement using the effective interest method taking into account the expected timing and amount of cash flows. 
Interest income and expense include the amortisation of any discount or premium or other differences between the initial carrying 
amount of an interest-bearing instrument and its amount at maturity calculated on an effective interest basis.

Interest income and expense on financial instruments carried at fair value through the income statement is presented as part of 
interest income or expense.

(h) Non-interest revenue
Non-interest revenue in respect of financial instruments principally comprises fees and commission and other operating income. 
These are accounted for as set out below.

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Fees and commission income
Loan origination fees for loans that are probable of being drawn down, are deferred (together with related direct costs) and 
recognised as an adjustment to the effective yield on the loan. Fees and commission arising from negotiating, or participating in the 
negotiation of a transaction for a third-party, such as the acquisition of loans, shares or other securities or the purchase or sale of 
businesses, are recognised on completion of the underlying transaction.

Other
Revenue other than interest, fees and commission (including fees and insurance premiums), which includes exchange and securities 
trading income, dividends from investments and net gains on the sale of banking assets, is recognised in the income statement 
when the amount of revenue from the transaction or service can be measured reliably and it is probable that the economic benefits 
of the transaction or service will flow to the Group.

(i) Financial assets
Non-derivative financial assets are recorded as held-for-trading, designated as fair value through the income statement, loans and 
receivables, held-to-maturity or available-for-sale. An analysis of the Group’s statement of financial position, showing the 
categorisation of financial assets, together with financial liabilities is set out in note E1(a).

Held-for-trading financial assets
Held-for-trading financial assets are those that were either acquired for generating a profit from short-term fluctuations in price or 
dealer’s margin, or are securities included in a portfolio in which a pattern of short-term profit taking exists, or are derivatives that are 
not designated as effective hedging instruments.

Financial assets designated as fair value through the income statement
Financial assets that the Group has elected to designate as fair value through the income statement are those where the treatment 
either eliminates or significantly reduces a measurement or recognition inconsistency that would otherwise arise when using a 
different measurement basis (for instance with respect to financial assets supporting insurance contract provisions) or are managed, 
evaluated and reported using a fair value basis (for instance financial assets supporting shareholders’ funds).

All financial assets carried at fair value through the income statement, whether held-for-trading or designated, are initially recognised 
at fair value and subsequently re-measured at fair value based on quoted bid prices. If such price information is not available for 
these instruments, the Group uses other valuation techniques, including internal models, to measure these instruments. These 
techniques use market observable inputs where available, derived from similar assets and liabilities in similar and active markets, 
from recent transaction prices for comparable items or from other observable market data. For positions where observable reference 
data are not available for some or all parameters the Group estimates the non-market observable inputs used in its valuation models. 
Where discounted cash flow techniques are used, estimated future cash flows are based on management’s best estimates and the 
discount rate used is a market-related rate at the reporting date for an instrument with similar terms and conditions.

Fair values of certain financial instruments, such as over-the-counter (OTC) derivative instruments, are determined using pricing 
models that consider, among other factors, contractual and market prices, correlations, yield curves, credit spreads, and volatility 
factors.

Realised and unrealised fair value gains and losses on all financial assets carried at fair value through the income statement are 
included in Investment return (non-banking) or in Banking trading, investment and similar income as appropriate.

Interest earned whilst holding financial assets at fair value through the income statement is reported within Investment return 
(non-banking) or Banking interest and similar income, as appropriate. Dividends receivable are included separately in dividend 
income, within Investment return (non-banking) or Banking trading, investment and similar income, when a dividend is declared.

Loans and receivables
Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial assets with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted in an active 
market, other than those classified by the Group as fair value through income statement or available-for-sale. Loans and receivables 
are carried at amortised cost less any impairment write-downs. Third-party expenses such as legal fees incurred in securing a loan 
are treated as part of the cost of the transaction.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

A: Significant accounting policies continued
A5: Financial instruments continued
Held-to-maturity financial assets
Financial assets with fixed maturity dates which are quoted in an active market and where management has both the intent and the 
ability to hold the asset to maturity are classified as held-to-maturity. These assets are carried at amortised cost less any impairment 
write-downs. Interest earned on held-to-maturity financial assets is reported within Investment return (non-banking) or Banking 
interest and similar income, as appropriate.

Available-for-sale financial assets
Financial assets intended to be held for an indefinite period of time, which may be sold in response to needs for liquidity or changes 
in interest rates, exchange rates or equity prices other than those designated fair value through income statement or as loans and 
receivables, are classified as available-for-sale. Management determines the appropriate classification of its investments at the time 
of the purchase.

Available-for-sale financial assets are measured at fair value based on quoted bid prices. If quoted bid prices are unavailable or 
determined to be unreliable, the fair value of the financial asset is estimated using pricing models or discounted cash flow 
techniques. Where discounted cash flow techniques are used, estimated future cash flows are based on management’s best 
estimates and the discount rate used is a market-related rate at the reporting date for an instrument with similar terms and 
conditions. Where pricing models are used, inputs are based on observable market data where available at the reporting date.

Unrealised gains and losses arising from changes in the fair value of available-for-sale financial assets are recognised in other 
comprehensive income. When available-for-sale financial assets are disposed the related accumulated fair value adjustments are 
included in the income statement as gains and losses from available-for-sale financial assets. When available-for-sale assets are 
impaired the resulting loss is shown separately in the income statement as an impairment charge.

Interest earned on available-for-sale financial assets is reported within Investment return (non-banking) or Banking interest and similar 
income, as appropriate. Dividends receivable are included separately in dividend income, within Investment return (non-banking) or 
Banking trading, investment and similar income, as appropriate when a dividend is declared.

(j) Sale and repurchase agreements and lending of securities
Securities sold subject to linked repurchase agreements are retained in the financial statements as appropriate when considering the 
de-recognition criteria contained within IAS 39. The securities that are retained in the financial statements are reflected as trading or 
investment securities and the counterparty liability is included in amounts owed to other depositors, deposits from other banks, or 
other money market deposits, as appropriate. Securities purchased under agreements to resell at a pre-determined price are 
recorded as loans and advances to other banks or customers as appropriate. The difference between the sale and repurchase price 
is treated as interest and accrued over the lives of agreements using the effective interest method.

Securities lent to counterparties are retained in the financial statements and any interest earned recognised in the income statement 
using the effective interest method.

Securities borrowed are not recognised in the financial statements, unless these are sold to third parties, in which case the purchase 
and sale are recorded with the gain or loss included in trading income. The obligation to return them is recorded at fair value as a 
trading liability.

(k) Impairments of financial assets
Indicators of impairment
A provision for impairment is established if there is objective evidence that the Group will not be able to recover all amounts relating 
to the financial asset. Observable data that could come to the attention of the Group that could lead to a provision for impairment to 
be made includes:

 ■ Significant financial difficulty of the counterparty.
 ■ A breach of contract, such as a default or delinquency in interest or principal payments.
 ■ The Group, for economic or legal reasons relating to the counterparty’s financial difficulty, grants to the counterparty a concession 

that the Group would not otherwise consider.

 ■ It becoming probable that the counterparty will enter bankruptcy or other financial reorganisation.
 ■ Observable data indicating that there is a measurable decrease in the estimated future cash flows from a group of assets since the 

initial recognition of those assets, although the decrease cannot yet be identified with the individual financial assets, including:
 – adverse changes in the payment status of counterparties in the group of financial assets; or
 – national or local economic conditions that correlate with defaults on the assets in the group of financial assets.

In addition, for an available-for-sale financial asset, a significant or prolonged decline in the fair value below its cost is also objective 
evidence of impairment.

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Financial assets at amortised cost
The amount of the impairment of a financial asset held at amortised cost is the difference between the carrying amount and the 
recoverable amount, being the value of expected cash flows, including amounts recoverable from guarantees and collateral, 
discounted based on the effective interest rate at initial recognition. In estimating expected cash flows the Group looks at the 
contractual cash flows of the assets and adjusts these contractual cash flows for historical loss experience of assets with similar 
credit risks, with this adjusted to reflect any additional conditions that are expected to arise or to account for those which no longer 
exist.

The impairment provision also covers losses where there is objective evidence that losses are present in components of the loan 
portfolio at the reporting date, but these components have not yet been specifically identified. When a loan is uncollectable, it is 
written-off against the related impairment provision.

If the amount of impairment subsequently decreases due to an event occurring after the write-down, the release of the impairment 
provision is credited to the income statement. Impairment reversals are limited to what the carrying amount would have been, had no 
impairment losses been recognised.

Interest income on impaired loans and receivables is recognised on the impaired amount using the original effective interest rate 
before the impairment.

Available-for-sale financial assets
The amount of the impairment loss of an available-for-sale financial asset is the cumulative loss that has been recognised in other 
comprehensive income, being the difference between the acquisition cost and the asset’s current fair value, less any impairment loss 
on that asset previously recognised in the income statement. For available-for-sale debt securities, fair value is determined as is the 
present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the current market rate of interest.

All such impairments are recognised in the income statement. The release of an impairment allowance in respect of a debt 
instrument categorised as available-for-sale is credited to the income statement, the release in respect of an equity instrument 
categorised as available-for-sale is credited to the available-for-sale reserve within equity.

(l) Financial liabilities (other than investment contracts and derivatives)
Non-derivative financial liabilities, including borrowed funds, amounts owed to depositors and liabilities under acceptances, are 
recorded as held-for-trading, designated as fair value through the income statement or as financial liabilities at amortised cost.

Liabilities that the Group has elected to designate as fair value through the income statement are those where the treatment either 
eliminates or significantly reduces a measurement or recognition inconsistency that would otherwise arise when using a different 
measurement basis and are managed, evaluated and reported using a fair value basis.

For financial liabilities recorded at fair value and which contain a demand feature, the fair value of the liability is not less than the 
amount payable on demand, discounted from the first date that the amount could be required to be paid.

Financial liabilities categorised at amortised cost are recognised initially at fair value, which is normally represented by the transaction 
price, less directly attributable transaction costs. Subsequent to initial recognition these financial liabilities are stated at amortised 
cost with any difference between cost and redemption value being recognised in the income statement over the period of the 
borrowings on an effective interest basis.

Conversion options included within financial liabilities are recorded separately in shareholders’ equity. The Group does not recognise 
any change in the value of this option in subsequent periods. The remaining obligation to make future payments of principal and 
interest to bondholders is calculated using a market interest rate for an equivalent non-convertible bond and is presented on the 
amortised cost basis in other borrowed funds until extinguished on conversion or maturity of the bonds.

If the Group purchases its own debt, it is removed from the statement of financial position and the difference between the carrying 
amount of a liability and the consideration paid is included in other income.

(m) Reclassifications of financial assets
A non-derivative financial asset that would have met the definition of loans and receivables at initial recognition that was required to 
be categorised as held-for-trading (on the basis that it was held for the purpose of selling or repurchasing in the near term) may under 
exceptional circumstances be reclassified out of the fair value through income statement category if the Group intends and is able to 
hold the financial asset for the foreseeable future or until maturity. If a financial asset is so reclassified, it is reclassified at its fair value 
on the date of reclassification. Any gain or loss already recognised in profit or loss is not reversed. The fair value at the date of 
reclassification becomes its new cost or amortised cost, as applicable.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

A: Significant accounting policies continued
A5: Financial instruments continued
Other non-derivative financial assets that were required to be categorised as held-for-trading at initial recognition may be reclassified 
out of the fair value through income statement category in rare circumstances. If a financial asset is so reclassified, it is reclassified at 
its fair value on the date of reclassification. Any gain or loss already recognised in profit or loss is not reversed. Measurement of the 
asset after reclassification depends on the subsequent categorisation.

A non-derivative financial asset that would have met the definition of loans and receivables at initial recognition that was designated 
as available-for-sale may under exceptional circumstances be reclassified out of the available-for-sale category to the loans and 
receivables category if it meets the loans and receivables definition at the date of reclassification and if the Group intends and is able 
to hold the financial asset for the foreseeable future or until maturity. If a financial asset is so reclassified, it is reclassified at its fair 
value on the date of reclassification. The fair value at the date of reclassification becomes its new cost or amortised cost, as 
applicable. In the case of a financial asset with a fixed maturity, the gain or loss already recognised in the available-for-sale reserve in 
equity is amortised to profit or loss over the remaining life using the effective interest method together with any difference between 
the new amortised cost and the maturity amount. In the case of a financial asset that does not have a fixed maturity, the gain or loss 
already recognised in the available-for-sale reserve in equity is recognised in profit or loss when the financial asset is sold or 
otherwise disposed of.

(n) Parent Company investments in subsidiary undertakings and associates
Parent Company investments in subsidiary undertakings and associates are recorded at cost. Impairments of Parent Company 
investments in subsidiary undertakings and associates are accounted for in the same way as impairments of other non-financial assets.

A6: Intangible assets
(a) Goodwill and goodwill impairment
Goodwill arising on the acquisition of a subsidiary undertaking is recognised as an asset at the date that control is achieved (the 
acquisition date). Goodwill is measured as the excess of the fair value of the consideration transferred, the amount of any non-
controlling interest in the acquiree and the fair value of the acquirer’s previously-held equity interest in the acquiree (if any) over the 
net of the acquisition date amounts of the identifiable assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. If the Group’s interest in the net fair 
value of the acquiree’s identifiable net assets exceeds the sum of the consideration transferred, the amount of any non-controlling 
interest in the acquiree and the fair value of the acquirer’s previously-held equity interest (if any), this excess is recognised 
immediately in the income statement as a bargain purchase gain.

Goodwill is not amortised, but is reviewed for impairment at least once annually. Any impairment loss is recognised immediately in 
profit or loss and is not subsequently reversed.

On loss of control of a subsidiary undertaking, any attributable goodwill is included in the determination of any profit or loss on 
disposal.

Goodwill is allocated to one or more cash-generating units (CGUs), being the smallest identifiable group of assets that generates 
cash inflows that are largely independent of the cash inflows from other assets or group of assets. The directors annually test for 
impairment of each CGU or group of CGUs containing goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite useful lives, at a level that is no 
larger than that of the Group’s identified operating segments for the purposes of segment reporting. An impairment loss is 
recognised whenever the carrying amount of an asset or its CGU or group of CGUs exceeds its recoverable amount, which is the 
higher of its fair value less costs to sell and its value in use. Impairment losses relating to goodwill are not reversed.

(b) Present value of acquired in-force for insurance and investment contract business
The present value of acquired in-force for insurance and investment contract business is capitalised in the consolidated statement of 
financial position as an intangible asset.

The capitalised value is the present value of cash flows anticipated in the future from the relevant book of insurance and investment 
contract policies acquired. This is calculated by performing a cash flow projection of the associated life assurance fund and book of 
in-force policies in order to estimate future after tax profits attributable to shareholders. The valuation is based on actuarial principles 
taking into account future premium income, mortality, disease and surrender probabilities, together with future costs and investment 
returns on the assets supporting the fund. These profits are discounted at a rate of return allowing for the risk of uncertainty of the 
future cash flows. The key assumptions impacting the valuation are discount rate, future investment returns and the rate at which 
policies discontinue.

The asset is amortised over the expected profit recognition period on a systematic basis over the anticipated lives of the related 
contracts.

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The amortisation charge is stated net of any unwind in the discount rate used to calculate the asset.

The recoverable amount of the asset is re-calculated at each reporting date and any impairment losses recognised accordingly.

(c) Other intangible assets acquired as part of a business combination
Contractual banking and asset management customer relationships, relationships with distribution channels and similar intangible 
assets, acquired as a part of a business combination, are capitalised at their fair value, represented by the estimated net present 
value of the future cash flows from the relevant relationships acquired at the date of acquisition.

Brands and similar items acquired as part of a business combination are capitalised at their fair value based on a ‘relief from royalty’ 
valuation methodology.

Subsequent to initial recognition such acquired intangible assets are amortised on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful 
lives as set out below:

 ■ Distribution channels 
 ■ Customer relationships 
 ■ Brand 

10 years
10 years
15 – 20 years

The estimated life is re-evaluated on a regular basis.

(d) Internally developed software
Internally developed software is amortised over its estimated useful life. Such assets are stated at cost less accumulated 
amortisation and impairment losses. Software is recognised in the statement of financial position if, and only if, it is probable that the 
relevant future economic benefits attributable to the software will flow to the Group and its cost can be measured reliably.

Costs incurred in the research phase are expensed whereas costs incurred in the development phase are capitalised subject to 
meeting specific criteria, set out in the relevant accounting guidance. The main criteria is that future economic benefits can be 
identified as a result of the development expenditure. Amortisation is charged to the income statement on a straight-line basis over 
the estimated useful lives of the relevant software, which range between two and five years.

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Subsequent expenditure on capitalised intangible assets is capitalised only when it increases the future economic benefits embodied 
in the specific asset to which it relates. All other expenditure is expensed as incurred.

For properties reclassified during the year from property, plant and equipment to investment properties, any revaluation gain arising 
is initially recognised in the income statement to the extent that impairment losses were previously recognised. Any residual excess is 
taken to the revaluation reserve. Revaluation deficits are recognised in the revaluation reserve to the extent of previously recognised 
gains and any residual deficit is accounted for in the income statement.

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taken to the income statement.

A7: Non-current assets held for sale and discontinued operations
Non-current assets (and disposal groups) classified as held for sale are measured at the lower of their carrying amount and their fair 
value less costs to sell. Where the proceeds of disposal are expected to exceed the carrying amount of the related net assets no 
impairment loss is recognised on the reclassifications of assets as held for sale.

Non-current assets and disposal groups are classified as held for sale if their carrying amount will be recovered through a sales 
transaction rather than through continuing use. This condition is regarded as having been met only when the sale is highly probable 
and the asset is available for immediate sale in its present condition. Management must be committed to the sale, which should be 
expected to qualify for recognition as a completed sale within one year of the date of classification.

A discontinued operation is defined as a component of an entity that either has been disposed of, or is classified as held for sale and:

 ■ Represents a separate major line of business or geographical area of operations;
 ■ Is part of a single co-ordinated plan to dispose of a separate major line of business or geographical area of operations; or
 ■ Is a subsidiary acquired exclusively with a view to resale.

When a non-current asset (or disposal group) ceases to be classified as held for sale, the individual assets and liabilities cease to be 
shown separately in the statement of financial position at the end of the year in which the classification changes. Comparatives are 
not restated. If the line of business was previously presented as a discontinued operation and subsequently ceases to be classified 
as held for sale the income statement and cash flows of the comparative period are restated to show that line of business as a 
continuing operation.

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

A: Significant accounting policies continued
A8: Liquidity analysis of the statement of financial position
The Group’s statement of financial position is in order of liquidity as is permitted by IAS 1 ‘Presentation of Financial Statements’. In 
order to satisfy the requirements of IAS 1, the following analysis is given to describe how statement of financial position lines are 
categorised between current and non-current balances, applying the principles laid out in IAS 1.

The following statement of financial position captions are generally classified as current – cash and cash equivalents, non-current 
assets held for sale, client indebtedness for acceptances, current tax receivable, third-party interests in the consolidation of funds, 
current tax payable, liabilities under acceptances and non-current liabilities held for sale. The following balances are generally 
classified as non-current – goodwill and other intangible assets, mandatory reserve deposits with central banks, property, plant and 
equipment, investment property, deferred tax assets, investments in associated undertakings and jointly controlled operations, 
deferred acquisition costs, deposits held with reinsurers, provisions, deferred revenue and deferred tax liabilities.

The following balances include both current and non-current portions – reinsurers’ shares of life assurance and general insurance 
business policyholder liabilities, loans and advances, investments and securities, other assets, derivative financial assets and 
liabilities, life assurance and general insurance policyholder liabilities, borrowed funds, amounts owed to bank depositors and other 
liabilities. The split between the current and non-current portions for these assets and liabilities is given either by way of a footnote to 
the relevant note to the accounts or by way of a maturity analysis (in respect of major financial liability captions).

A9: Standards, amendments to standards, and interpretations adopted in the 2011 annual financial statements
The following standards, amendments to standards and interpretations, which are relevant to the Group, have been adopted in 
these financial statements. The adoption of these standards had no impact in the Group’s financial position or performance 
unless stated otherwise.

 ■ IAS 24 ‘Related Party Disclosures’ (Amendment). The amended standard is effective for annual periods beginning on or after 
1 January 2011. It clarifies the definition of a related party to simplify the identification of such relationships and to eliminate 
inconsistencies in its application. The revised standard introduced a partial exemption of disclosure requirements for government-
related entities. 

 ■ IFRIC 19 ‘Extinguishing Financial Liabilities with Equity Instruments’ (effective 1 July 2010) clarifies the treatment of transactions 

whereby equity instruments are issued in order to extinguish all or part of a financial liability. 

 ■ IFRIC 14 ‘Prepayments of a minimum funding requirement’. The amendment to IFRIC 14 is effective for annual periods beginning 

on or after 1 January 2011 with retrospective application. The amendment provides guidance on assessing the recoverable 
amount of a net pension asset. The amendment permits an entity to treat the prepayment of a minimum funding requirement as 
an asset.

 ■ The improvements to IFRSs issued in 2010 have been adopted.

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A10: Future standards, amendments to standards, and interpretations not early-adopted in the 2011 annual financial 
statements
At the date of authorisation of these financial statements the following standards, amendments to standards, and interpretations, 
which are relevant to the Group, have been issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, although the EU has not yet 
endorsed all of them. The standards, amendments to standards and interpretations have not yet been endorsed by the EU unless 
stated otherwise, with the Group currently assessing the full impact of each.

 ■ IFRS 9 ‘Financial Instruments’ (effective 1 January 2013) is a new standard on financial instruments that will eventually replace IAS 
39. The published standard introduces changes to the current IAS 39 rules for classification and measurement of financial assets. 
Under IFRS 9 there will be two measurement bases for financial assets, amortised cost and fair value. Financial assets at fair value 
will be recorded at fair value through the income statement with a limited opportunity to record changes in fair value of certain 
equity instruments through other comprehensive income. The main impact for the Group will be the reclassification of the 
Bermuda business’ bond portfolios from ‘available-for-sale’ (fair value changes through other comprehensive income) to amortised 
cost or fair value through the income statement. Financial liabilities are excluded from the scope of the standard.

 ■ IFRS 7 ‘Disclosures – Transfers of Financial Assets’ (Amendments to IFRS 7) was issued in October 2010. The amendments to 

IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures require enhancements to the existing disclosures where an asset is transferred but is not 
derecognised and introduce new disclosures for assets that are derecognised but the entity continues to have a continuing 
exposure to the asset after the sale. These amendments are effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 July 2011. Early 
application of the amendments is permitted.

 ■ IFRS 10 ‘Consolidated Financial Statements’ (effective 1 January 2013); IFRS 11 ‘Joint Arrangements’ (effective 1 January 2013); 
IFRS 12 ‘Disclosures of interests in other entities’ (effective 1 January 2013). These standards all relate to how the Group will 
account for its interests in subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates, together with new disclosures regarding these investments. 
The most significant impact is expected from IFRS 10 which provides a revised principle of when the Group controls another 
entity.

 ■ IFRS 13 ‘Fair Value Measurement’ (effective 1 January 2013) is a new standard providing principles on the determination of fair 

value.

 ■ Amendment to IAS 12 ‘Deferred Tax: Recovery of Underlying Assets’ (effective 1 January 2012) introduces an exception to the 

current measurement principles of deferred tax assets and liabilities arising from investment property measured using the fair value 
model in accordance with IAS 40 Investment Property.

 ■ Amendments to IAS 1 ‘Presentation of Items of Other Comprehensive Income’ (effective 1 July 2012) require that an entity present 
separately the items of OCI that may be reclassified to profit or loss in the future from those that would never be reclassified to 
profit or loss. This amendment is not expected to have an impact on the Group financial statements.

 ■ Amendments to IAS 19 ‘Defined Benefit Plans’ (effective 1 January 2013) require immediate recognition of actuarial gains and 

losses in other comprehensive income and eliminate the corridor method.

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

B: Segment information
B1: Basis of segmentation
The Group’s results are analysed and reported on a basis consistent with the way that management and the Board of Directors considers 
information when making operating decisions and the basis on which resources are allocated and performance assessed by management 
and the Board of Directors, being in line with that reported in the previous financial year. This information is presented to the Board in local 
currency, however this note is presented in pounds sterling, the presentation currency of the Group. As detailed in note A2, Nordic has 
been reclassified as discontinued and as a result also non-core, with the comparative segment information restated accordingly, resulting 
in a reduction in adjusted operating profit before tax and non-controlling interests of £110 million for the year ended 31 December 2010. 

There are four principal business activities from which the Group generates revenues. These are life assurance (premium income), 
asset management business (fee and commission income), banking (banking interest receivable) and general insurance (premium 
income). The revenues generated in each reported segment can be seen in the analysis of profits and losses in note B3.

The information reflects the measures of profit and loss, assets and liabilities for each operating segment as regularly provided to 
management and the Board of Directors. There are no differences between the measurement of the assets and liabilities reflected in the 
primary statements and that reported for the segments. A reconciliation between the segment revenues and expenses and the Group’s 
revenues and expenses is shown in note B2.

In line with internal reporting, assets, liabilities, revenues or expenses that are not directly attributable to a particular segment are 
allocated between segments where appropriate and where there is a reasonable basis for doing so. The Group accounts for 
inter-segment revenues and transfers as if the transactions were with third parties at current market prices. Given the nature of the 
operations, there are no major customers within any of the segments.

The types of products and services from which each operating segment derives its revenues are as follows:

Core operations
Long-Term Savings
Emerging Markets – life assurance and asset management 
Retail Europe – life assurance and asset management 
Wealth Management – life assurance and asset management

Other core operations
Nedbank – banking and asset management 
Mutual & Federal – general insurance 
US Asset Management – asset management 
Other – other operating segments and business activities

Discontinued and non-core operations
Bermuda – life assurance (non-core) 
Nordic – life assurance, asset management and banking (discontinued and non-core) 
US Life – life assurance (discontinued and non-core)

Income statement segmentation
For the IFRS income statement Nordic and US Life have been classified as discontinued operations. All other businesses including 
Bermuda are classified as continuing.

The profits of the Nordic, US Life and Bermuda businesses are excluded in determining adjusting operating profit in both periods, on 
the basis that they are either discontinued (Nordic and US Life) or non-core (Bermuda).

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Statement of financial position segmentation
The segmental analysis of the statement of financial position at both 31 December 2011 and 31 December 2010 discloses Bermuda 
as non-core, consistent with the treatment of the business for AOP purposes.

Nordic is disclosed as discontinued in the statement of financial position consistent with the income statement classification. The 
agreement to dispose of Nordic announced on 15 December 2011 resulted in the assets and liabilities of the business being 
classified as held for sale at 31 December 2011. For the corresponding period Nordic has been reported on a line by line basis. 

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US Life is disclosed as discontinued at 31 December 2010, being classified as held for sale. The disposal of US Life was completed 
on 7 April 2011.

Adjusted operating profit is one of the key measures reported to the Group’s management and Board of Directors for their 
consideration in the allocation of resources to and the review of performance of the segments. The Group utilises additional 
measures to assess the performance of each of the segments, in particular the level of net client cash flows and funds under 
management. Additional performance measures considered by management and the Board of Directors in assessing the 
performance of the segments can be found in the Market Consistent Embedded Value basis supplementary information presented 
on pages 244 to 285.

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In the analysis that follows, consolidation adjustments include the elimination of inter-segment revenues, expenses, assets and 
liabilities together with the impacts of the consolidation of the Group’s interest in unit trusts, mutual funds and similar entities.

B2: Gross earned premiums

Year ended 31 December 2011

Life assurance – insurance contracts 
Life assurance – investment contracts 
with discretionary participation

features

General insurance

Gross earned premiums

Life assurance – other investment 

contracts recognised as 
deposits

Emerging 
Markets

1,567

975
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2,542

Retail  

Europe

Wealth 
Management

Long-Term 
Savings

M&F

Bermuda

30

–
–

30

274

1,871

–

–
–

274

975
–

2,846

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736

736

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–
–

2

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666

5,740

8,494

–

Year ended 31 December 2010

Life assurance – insurance contracts 
Life assurance – investment contracts
with discretionary participation 
features

General insurance

Gross earned premiums

Life assurance – other investment 
contracts recognised as deposits

Emerging  
Markets

1,498

855
–

2,353

1,829

Retail 
 Europe

Wealth 
Management

 Long-Term 
Savings

28

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–

28

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1,877

–
–

351

855
–

2,732

656

6,287

8,772

M&F

–

–
728

728

–

Bermuda

–

–
–

–

–

£m

Total 

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975
736

3,584

8,494

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Total  
Restated 

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3,460

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

B: Segment information continued
B3: Adjusted operating profit statement – segment information year ended 31 December 2011

Long-Term Savings

Emerging 
Markets

Retail  

Europe

Wealth 
Management

Total 
Long-Term 
Savings

Revenue
Gross earned premiums
Outward reinsurance

Net earned premiums
Investment return (non-banking)
Banking interest and similar income
Banking trading, investment and similar income
Fee and commission income, and income from service activities
Other income
Inter-segment revenues

Total revenues

Expenses
Claims and benefits (including change in insurance contract provisions)
Reinsurance recoveries

Net claims and benefits incurred
Change in investment contract liabilities
Losses on loans and advances
Finance costs (including interest and similar expenses)
Banking interest payable and similar expenses
Fee and commission expenses, and other acquisition costs
Other operating and administrative expenses
Goodwill impairment
Change in third-party interest in consolidated funds
Income tax attributable to policyholder returns
Inter-segment expenses

Total expenses

Share of associated undertakings’ and joint ventures’ profit after tax

Profit on disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic 
investments

Adjusted operating profit/(loss) before tax and non-controlling interests
Income tax expense
Non-controlling interests

Adjusted operating profit/(loss) after tax and non-controlling interests
Adjusting items net of tax and non-controlling interests

Profit/(loss) after tax from continuing operations
Profit from discontinued operations after tax

Profit/(loss) after tax attributable to equity holders of the parent

2,542
(88)

2,454
2,626
–
–
411
68
66

5,625

(2,854)
73

(2,781)
(925)
–
–
–
(223)
(1,076)
–
–
(53)
(7)

(5,065)

10

–
570
(120)

(3)
447

126
573
–

573

30
(8)

22
(214)
–
–
201
2
5

16

(20)
3

(17)
226
(1)
–
–
(84)
(93)
–
–
–
(3)

28

–

–
44
(11)

–
33

(30)
3
–

3

274
(80)

194
(2,664)
–
–
982
21
6

(1,461)

(82)
6

(76)
2,588
–
–
–
(580)
(311)
–
–
62
(43)

1,640

–

–
179
(15)

–
164

(57)
107
–

107

2,846
(176)

2,670
(252)
–
–
1,594
91
77

4,180

(2,956)
82

(2,874)
1,889
(1)
–
–
(887)
(1,480)
–
–
9
(53)

(3,397)

10

–
793
(146)

(3)
644

39
683
–

683

Of the total revenues, excluding intercompany revenues, (£1,492) million was generated in the UK (2010: £5,143 million), (£81) million in rest of Europe (2010: 
£1,160 million), £11,007 million in southern Africa (2010: £12,575 million), £270 million in United States (2010: £829 million) and £80 million relates to other 
operating segments (2010: £90 million). 

*  Non-core operations relates to Bermuda with the exception of £22 million and £5 million of inter-segment revenue and expenses and the profit from 

discontinued operations after tax, with these reflecting the results of Nordic and US Life both of which have been classified as discontinued operations as 
detailed in notes A2 and B1. Bermuda loss after tax for 2011 was £201 million. Further detail on the results of discontinued operations is provided in note H1.

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Adjusting 
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  Discontinued  
  and non-core  
operations*

IFRS Income 
statement 

£m

–
–

–
–
3,669
217
1,051
50
27

5,014

–
–

–
–
(457)
–
(2,091)
(9)
(1,641)
–
–
–
(61)

(4,259)

–

–

755
(188)
(269)

298
16

314
–

314

736
(149)

587
54
–
–
34
–
18

693

(422)
41

(381)
–
–
–
–
(109)
(95)
–
–
–
(19)

(604)

–

–

89
(22)
(8)

59
(24)

35
–

35

–
–

–
–
–
–
447
10
1

458

–
–

–
–
–
–
–
(12)
(379)
–
–
–
–

(391)

–

–

67
(8)
–

59
(260)

(201)
–

(201)

–
–

–
52
–
–
–
–
16

68

–
–

–
–
–
(128)
–
–
(81)
–
–
–
(48)

(257)

–

–

(189)
23
(39)

(205)
27

(178)
–

(178)

–
–

–
30
–
–
–
–
(185)

(155)

–
–

–
–
–
–
–
(24)
(8)
–
2
–
185

155

–

–

–
–
–

–
–

–
–

–

3,582
(325)

3,257
(116)
3,669
217
3,126
151
(46)

10,258

(3,378)
123

(3,255)
1,889
(458)
(128)
(2,091)
(1,041)
(3,684)
–
2
9
4

(8,753)

10

–

1,515
(341)
(319)

855
(202)

653
–

653

–
–

–
(241)
–
–
(91)
–
–

(332)

–
–

–
–
–
70
(4)
104
(154)
(264)
–
(9)
–

(257)

–

251

(338)
117
19

(202)
202

–
–

–

2
–

2
(210)
–
–
–
20
46

(142)

47
–

47
–
–
–
–
(70)
(14)
–
–
–
(4)

(41)

–

–

(183)
(1)
–

(184)
–

(184)
198

14

3,584
(325)

3,259
(567)
3,669
217
3,035
171
–

9,784

(3,331)
123

(3,208)
1,889
(458)
(58)
(2,095)
(1,007)
(3,852)
(264)
2
–
–

(9,051)

10

251

994
(225)
(300)

469
–

469
198

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

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B3: Adjusted operating profit statement – segment information year ended 31 December 2010 (restated)

Long-Term Savings

Emerging 
Markets

Retail  

Europe

Wealth 
Management

Total  
Long-Term 
Savings

Revenue
Gross earned premiums
Outward reinsurance

Net earned premiums
Investment return (non-banking)
Banking interest and similar income
Banking trading, investment and similar income
Fee and commission income, and income from service activities
Other income
Inter-segment revenues

Total revenues

Expenses
Claims and benefits (including change in insurance contract provisions)
Reinsurance recoveries

Net claims and benefits incurred
Change in investment contract liabilities
Losses on loans and advances
Finance costs (including interest and similar expenses)
Banking interest payable and similar expenses
Fee and commission expenses, and other acquisition costs
Other operating and administrative expenses
Goodwill impairment
Change in third-party interest in consolidated funds
Income tax attributable to policyholder returns
Inter-segment expenses

Total expenses

Share of associated undertakings’ and joint ventures’ profit after tax
Loss on disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic 

investments

Adjusted operating profit/(loss) before tax and non-controlling interests
Income tax expense
Non-controlling interests

Adjusted operating profit/(loss) after tax and non-controlling interests
Adjusting items net of tax and non-controlling interests

Profit/(loss) after tax from continuing operations
Loss from discontinued operations after tax

Profit/(loss) after tax attributable to equity holders of the parent

2,353
(72)

2,281
4,072
–
–
372
72
54

6,851

(3,943)
83

(3,860)
(1,261)
–
–
–
(219)
(941)
–
–
(32)

(2)
(6,315)

3

–
539
(146)

(1)
392
(1)

391

–
391

28
(8)

20
392
–
–
198
–
5

615

(25)
5

(20)
(382)
(1)
–
–
(75)
(84)
–
–
–

(2)
(564)

–

–
51
(13)

–
38
(25)

13

–
13

351
(79)

272
4,409
–
–
912
11
12

5,616

(303)
75

(228)
(4,190)
–
–
–
(500)
(390)
–
–
(69)

(43)
(5,420)

1

–
197
(44)

–
153
(140)

13

–
13

2,732
(159)

2,573
8,873
–
–
1,482
83
71

13,082

(4,271)
163

(4,108)
(5,833)
(1)
–
–
(794)
(1,415)
–
–
(101)

(47)
(12,299)

4

–
787
(203)

(1)
583
(166)

417

–
417

*  Non-core operations relates to Bermuda with the exception of £18 million and £21 million of inter-segment revenue and expenses and the loss from 

discontinued operations after tax, with these reflecting the results of Nordic and US Life both of which have been classified as discontinued operations as 
detailed in notes A2 and B1. Bermuda profit after tax for 2010 was £22 million. Further detail on the results of discontinued operations is provided in note H1.

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Adjusting  
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Discontinued  
and non-core  
operations*

IFRS Income 
statement 

£m

–
–

–
–
3,913
199
946
35
20

5,113

–
–

–
–
(548)
–
(2,422)
(3)
(1,485)
–
–
–
(54)

(4,512)

–

–
601
(128)

(232)

241
10

251

–

251

728
(140)

588
56
–
–
28
–
20

692

(436)
58

(378)
–
–
–
–
(109)
(83)
–
–
–
(20)

(590)

1

–
103
(24)

(5)

74
(11)

63

–

63

–
–

–
1
–
–
465
9
4

479

–
–

–
–
–
–
–
(23)
(384)
–
–
–
–

(407)

–

–
72
(13)

–

59
(20)

39

–

39

–
–

–
76
–
–
1
(1)
29

105

–
–

–
–
1
(128)
–
–
(93)
–

–
(77)

(297)

–

–
(192)
41

(41)

(192)
(151)

(343)

–

(343)

–
–

–
340
–
–
–
1
(207)

134

–
–

–
–
–
–
–
(29)
(13)
–
(299)
–
207

(134)

–

–
–
–

–

–
–

–

–

–

3,460
(299)

3,161
9,346
3,913
199
2,922
127
(63)

19,605

(4,707)
221

(4,486)
(5,833)
(548)
(128)
(2,422)
(958)
(3,473)
–
(299)
(101)
9

(18,239)

5

–
1,371
(327)

(279)

765
(338)

427

–

427

–
–

–
(92)
–
–
(99)
–
–

(191)

–
–

–
–
–
(141)
(19)
126
(144)
(1)
–
101
–

(78)

–

(22)
(291)
(68)

21

(338)
338

–

–

–

–
(1)

(1)
299
–
–
–
22
63

383

(249)
1

(248)
–
–
–
–
(85)
(26)
–
–
–
(9)

(368)

–

–
15
4

–

19
–

19

(728)

(709)

3,460
(300)

3,160
9,553
3,913
199
2,823
149
–

19,797

(4,956)
222

(4,734)
(5,833)
(548)
(269)
(2,441)
(917)
(3,643)
(1)
(299)
–
–

(18,685)

5

(22)
1,095
(391)

(258)

446
–

446

(728)

(282)

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

B: Segment information continued
B4: Statement of financial position – segment information year ended 31 December 2011 

Notes

Emerging 
Markets

Retail 
 Europe

Wealth 
Management

£m

Total
Long–Term 
Savings

F1

F2

F3

F8

G5

F4

E8

E3

E4

F5

E6

E8

E8

E9

F6

F7

F8

F9

E10

E6

F10

F11(b)

F11(b)

104
–
374
1,666
81

32
113
31
299
30,064
10
–
711
298
339
–
1,025

35,147

30,270
–
–
239
137
17
185
120
1,667
–
–
230
–

141

33,006

2,141

2,144
(3)
(3)

–

2,141

474
–
3
–
22

–
334
8
1
4,188
9
–
56
–
108
–
52

5,255

4,201
–
–
–
4
219
102
16
77
–
–
–
–

1

4,620

635

635
–
–

–

635

1,282
–
13
–
43

–
830
836
189
37,320
61
–
254
–
408
1,161
86

42,483

37,958
–
–
–
60
454
87
23
596
–
–
–
1,120

461

40,759

1,724

1,724
–
–

–

1,724

1,860
-
390
1,666
146

32
1,277
875
489
71,572
80
-
1,021
298
855
1,161
1,163

82,885

72,429
-
-
239
201
690
374
159
2,340
-
-
230
1,120

603

78,385

4,500

4,503
(3)
(3)

-

4,500

At 31 December 2011

Assets
Goodwill and other intangible assets
Mandatory reserve deposits with central banks
Property, plant and equipment
Investment property
Deferred tax assets
Investments in associated undertakings and joint 

ventures

Deferred acquisition costs
Reinsurers’ share of policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Current tax receivable
Client indebtedness for acceptances
Trade, other receivables and other assets 
Derivative financial instruments – assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Non-current assets held for sale
Inter-segment assets

Total assets

Liabilities
Life assurance policyholder liabilities
General insurance liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidated funds
Borrowed funds
Provisions
Deferred revenue
Deferred tax liabilities
Current tax payable
Trade, other payables and other liabilities 
Liabilities under acceptances
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities
Non-current liabilities held for sale
Inter-segment liabilities

Total liabilities

Net assets

Equity
Equity attributable to equity holders of the parent
Non-controlling interests
Ordinary shares

Preferred securities

Total equity

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Discontinued 
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557
951
502
49
21

49
–
16
39,274
6,403
56
237
943
1,022
1,071
1
206
51,358

815
–
–
2,273
–
1
93
10
1,123
237
40,978
1,103
–
501

47,134

4,224

2,347
1,877
1,605
272

4,224

23
–
21
–
14

1
16
98
1
416
2
–
75
–
113
–
23
803

–
325
–
–
32
10
13
–
108
–
–
–
–
2

490

313

294
19
19
–

313

904
–
11
–
165

2
9
–
–
41
–
–
126
–
197
16
21
1,492

–
–
–
11
3
–
–
(3)
219
–
–
–
8
598

836

656

625
31
31
–

656

13
–
1
–
(8)

27
–
–
–
216
–
–
54
86
467
–
1,136
1,992

–
–
–
1,133
33
–
24
32
96
–
–
3
–
1,451

2,772

(780)

(1,226)
446
–
446

(780)

–
–
–
349
–

–
–
–
–
874
–
–
293
388
756
–
(3,155)
(495)

–
–
1,893
–
–
–
–
–
348
–
–
419
–
(3,155)

(495)

–

–
–
–
–

–

1
–
–
–
1

–
49
–
–
1,731
–
–
836
1
165
–
566
3,350

3,106
–
–
–
–
–
–
1
9
–
–
–
–
–

3,116

234

234
–
–
–

234

£m

Total

3,358
951
925
2,064
339

111
1,351
989
39,764
81,253
138
237
3,348
1,795
3,624
22,138
–
162,385

76,350
325
1,893
3,656
269
701
504
199
4,243
237
40,978
1,755
20,417
–

151,527

10,858

8,488
2,370
1,652
718

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–
–
-
–
–
–
20,960
40
21,000

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
19,289
–

19,289

1,711

1,711
–
–
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* Discontinued operations relates to Nordic. Further detail is provided in note H2.

The net assets of Emerging Markets are stated after eliminating investments in Group equity and debt instruments of £368 million (2010: £399 million) held in 
policyholder funds. These include investments in the Company’s ordinary shares and subordinated liabilities and preferred securities issued by the Group’s 
banking subsidiary Nedbank Limited. All Emerging Markets debt relates to life assurance. All other debt relates to other shareholders’ net assets.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

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B4: Statement of financial position – segment information year ended 31 December 2010 

Notes

Emerging  
Markets

Retail 
 Europe

Wealth 
Management

F1

F2

F3

F8

G5

F4

E8

E3

E4

F5

E6

E8

E8

E9

F6

F7

F8

F9

E10

E6

F10

F11(b)

F11(b)

120
–
396
1,679
96

26
139
24
343
34,519
4
–
854
557
1,141
–
947

40,845

35,676
–
–
291
158
22
225
123
2,246
–
–
135
–
123

38,999

1,846

1,847
(1)
(1)

–

1,846

522
–
3
–
27

–
316
8
1
4,466
9
–
58
–
93
–
56

5,559

4,460
–
–
–
4
197
124
4
94
–
–
–
–
4

4,887

672

672
–
–

–

672

1,463
–
16
–
27

1
855
907
185
40,856
95
–
274
–
336
6
294

45,315

41,468
–
–
1
50
498
224
65
544
–
–
–
–
99

42,949

2,366

2,366
–
–

–

2,366

£m

Total 
Long-Term  
Savings

2,105
–
415
1,679
150

27
1,310
939
529
79,841
108
–
1,186
557
1,570
6
1,297

91,719

81,604
–
–
292
212
717
573
192
2,884
–
–
135
–
226

86,835

4,884

4,885
(1)
(1)

–

4,884

At 31 December 2010

Assets
Goodwill and other intangible assets
Mandatory reserve deposits with central banks
Property, plant and equipment
Investment property
Deferred tax assets
Investments in associated undertakings and joint 

ventures

Deferred acquisition costs
Reinsurers’ share of policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Current tax receivable
Client indebtedness for acceptances
Trade, other receivables and other assets 
Derivative financial instruments – assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Non-current assets held for sale
Inter-segment assets

Total assets

Liabilities
Life assurance policyholder liabilities
General insurance liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidated funds
Borrowed funds
Provisions
Deferred revenue
Deferred tax liabilities
Current tax payable
Trade, other payables and other liabilities 
Liabilities under acceptances
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities
Non-current liabilities held for sale
Inter-segment liabilities

Total liabilities

Net assets

Equity
Equity attributable to equity holders of the parent
Non-controlling interests
Ordinary shares

Preferred securities

Total equity

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Nedbank

M&F

USAM

Other

Consolidation 
adjustments

Non-core 
operations 
– Bermuda

Discontinued 
operations*

637
1,079
546
19
28

96
1
31
46,032
6,886
47
190
943
1,350
841
1
202

58,929

846
–
–
2,456
(4)
1
158
12
1,717
190
47,279
1,172
–
431

54,258

4,671

2,643
2,028

1,714
314

4,671

33
–
25
–
12

2
19
122
1
553
–
–
84
–
131
–
23

1,181
–
16
–
156

8
14
–
–
42
–
–
138
–
171
–
4

1,005

1,730

–
397
–
–
40
11
13
1
114
–
–
–
–
2

578

427

409
18

18
–

427

–
–
–
11
3
–
–
7
210
–
–
–
–
646

877

853

821
32

32
–

853

14
–
1
1
(8)

25
–
–
–
285
–
–
62
109
458
–
975

1,922

–
–
–
1,443
47
–
16
13
120
–
–
102
–
2,017

3,758

(1,836)

(2,282)
446

–
446

(1,836)

–
–
–
341
–

–
–
–
–
2,587
–
–
292
476
689
–
(3,480)

905

–
–
3,584
–
–
–
–
–
350
–
–
451
–
(3,480)

905

–

–
–

–
–

–

–
–
–
–
–

–
124
–
–
2,567
–
–
1,038
1
74
–
874

4,678

3,933
–
–
–
–
–
–
1
7
–
–
–
–
–

3,941

737

737
–

–
–

737

£m

Total

4,965
1,079
1,015
2,040
416

162
1,534
1,104
51,778
106,153
156
190
3,934
2,503
4,132
12,391
–

193,552

98,631
397
3,584
4,204
260
730
858
238
5,661
190
53,236
1,870
12,219
–

182,078

11,474

8,951
2,523

1,763
760

995
–
12
–
78

4
66
12
5,216
13,392
1
–
191
10
198
12,384
105

32,664

12,248
–
–
2
(38)
1
98
12
259
–
5,957
10
12,219
158

30,926

1,738

1,738
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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

C: Other key performance information
C1: Operating profit adjusting items
(a) Summary of adjusting items
In determining the adjusted operating profit of the Group for core operations certain adjustments are made to profit before tax to 
reflect the directors’ view of the underlying long-term performance of the Group. The following table shows an analysis of those 
adjustments from adjusted operating profit to profit before and after tax.

Year ended 31 December 2011

Income/(expense)
Goodwill impairment and impact of acquisition accounting
Profit on acquisition/disposal of subsidiaries, associated 

undertakings and strategic investments
Short-term fluctuations in investment return
Investment return adjustment for Group equity and debt 

instruments held in life funds

Dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable 

securities

US Asset Management equity plans and non-controlling interests
Credit-related fair value gains/(losses) on Group debt instruments

Total adjusting items
Tax on adjusting items
Non-controlling interest in adjusting items

Total adjusting items after tax and non-controlling interests

Notes

Emerging 
Markets

Retail  

Europe

Wealth 
Management

£m

Total 
Long-Term 
Savings

C1(b)

C1(c)

C1(d)

C1(e)

C1(f)

C1(g)

C1(h)

D1(d)

F11(a)(iii)

(2)

249
(98)

(71)

–
–
–

78
43
5

126

(40)

–
(1)

–

–
–
–

(41)
11
–

(30)

(87)

–
(13)

–

–
–
–

(100)
43
–

(57)

(129)

249
(112)

(71)

–
–
–

(63)
97
5

39

£m

Year ended 31 December 2010*

Income/(expense)
Goodwill impairment and impact of acquisition accounting
Loss on disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and 

strategic investments

Short-term fluctuations in investment return
Investment return adjustment for Group equity and debt 

instruments held in life funds

Dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable 

securities

US Asset Management equity plans and non-controlling interests
Credit-related fair value losses on Group debt instruments

Total adjusting items
Tax on adjusting items
Non-controlling interest in adjusting items

Total adjusting items after tax and non-controlling interests

Notes

Emerging 
Markets

Retail 
Europe

Wealth 
Management

Total 
Long-Term 
Savings

C1(b)

C1(c)

C1(d)

C1(e)

C1(f)

C1(g)

C1(h)

D1(d)

F11(a)(iii)

(2)

–
1

(10)

–
–
–

(11)
10
–

(1)

(41)

–
1

–

–
–
–

(40)
15
–

(25)

(74)

–
(71)

–

–
–
–

(145)
5
–

(140)

(117)

–
(69)

(10)

–
–
–

(196)
30
–

(166)

* The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as non-core and discontinued.

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Notes

Long–Term 
Savings

Nedbank

M&F

USAM

Other

Total

£m

Year ended 31 December 2011

Income/(expense)
Goodwill impairment and impact of 
acquisition accounting
Profit on acquisition/disposal of 

subsidiaries, associated undertakings 
and strategic investments

Short-term fluctuations in investment 

return

Investment return adjustment for 

Group equity and debt instruments 
held in life funds

Dividends declared to holders of 
perpetual preferred callable  
securities

US Asset Management equity plans

and non-controlling interests

Credit-related fair value gains/(losses) 

on Group debt instruments

Total adjusting items
Tax on adjusting items
Non-controlling interest in adjusting 

items

Total adjusting items after tax and

non-controlling interests

Year ended 31 December 2010*

Income/(expense)
Goodwill impairment and impact of 

acquisition accounting

Loss on disposal of subsidiaries, 
associated undertakings and 
strategic investments

Short-term fluctuations in investment

return

Investment return adjustment for 

Group equity and debt instruments
held in life funds

Dividends declared to holders of 
perpetual preferred callable  
securities

US Asset Management equity plans 

and non-controlling interests
Credit-related fair value losses on 

Group debt instruments

Total adjusting items
Tax on adjusting items
Non-controlling interest in adjusting 

C1(b)

(129)

C1(c)

C1(d)

249

(112)

C1(e)

(71)

C1(f)

C1(g)

C1(h)

D1(d)

F11(a)(iii)

–

–

–

(63)
97

5

39

–

–

–

–

–

–

(4)

(4)
1

19

16

–

–

(28)

–

–

–

–

(28)
3

1

(272)

2

–

–

–

(4)

–

(274)
20

(6)

(24)

(260)

–

–

(31)

–

44

–

27

40
(13)

–

27

Notes

Long-Term 
Savings

Nedbank

M&F

USAM

Other

C1(b)

(117)

C1(c)

C1(d)

C1(e)

C1(f)

C1(g)

C1(h)

D1(d)

–

(69)

(10)

–

–

–

(196)
30

–

(166)

(6)

(1)

–

–

–

–

(20)

(27)
7

30

10

–

–

(7)

–

–

–

–

(7)
(4)

–

(11)

(2)

(21)

–

–

–

6

–

(17)
6

(9)

(20)

–

–

(6)

–

44

–

(183)

(145)
(6)

–

items

F11(a)(iii)

Total adjusting items after tax 
and non-controlling interests

* The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as non-core and discontinued.

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(401)

251

(171)

(71)

44

(4)

23

(329)
108

19

(202)

£m

Total 

(125)

(22)

(82)

(10)

44

6

(203)

(392)
33

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

C: Other key performance information continued
C1: Operating profit adjusting items continued
(b) Goodwill impairment and impact of acquisition accounting
Acquisition date deferred acquisition costs and deferred revenues are not recognised. These are reversed in the acquisition 
statement of financial position and replaced by goodwill, other intangible assets and the value of the acquired present value of 
in-force business (‘acquired PVIF’). In determining its adjusted operating profit the Group recognises deferred revenue and 
acquisition costs in relation to policies sold by acquired businesses pre-acquisition, and excludes the impairment of goodwill and the 
amortisation of acquired other intangibles and acquired PVIF and the movements in certain acquisition date provisions.

Goodwill impairment and acquisition accounting adjustments to adjusted operating profit are summarised below:

Year ended 31 December 2011

Amortisation of acquired PVIF
Amortisation of acquired deferred costs and revenue
Amortisation of other acquired intangible assets
Change in acquisition date provisions
Goodwill impairment 

Emerging 
Markets

Retail  

Europe

Wealth 
Management

Nedbank

USAM

–
–
(2)
–
–

(2)

(20)
(7)
(13)
–
–

(40)

(70)
20
(37)
–
–

(87)

–
–
–
–
–

–

–
–
(8)
–
(264)

(272)

Year ended 31 December 2010*

Amortisation of acquired PVIF
Amortisation of acquired deferred costs and revenue
Amortisation of other acquired intangible assets
Change in acquisition date provisions
Goodwill impairment 

Emerging 
Markets

Retail  

Europe

Wealth 
Management

Nedbank

USAM

–
–
(1)
–
(1)

(2)

(21)
(7)
(13)
–
–

(41)

(77)
34
(35)
4
–

(74)

–
–
(6)
–
–

(6)

–
–
(2)
–
–

(2)

* The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued and non-core.

(c) Profit/(loss) on acquisition/disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic investments
Profit/(loss) on the acquisition/disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic investments is analysed below:

£m

Total

(90)
13
(60)
–
(264)

(401)

£m

Total

(98)
27
(57)
4
(1)

(125)

£m

Emerging Markets

Long-Term Savings
Nedbank
USAM

Profit/(loss) on acquisition/disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic investments

Year ended  
31 December 
 2011

Year ended  
31 December 
 2010

249

249
–

2

251

–

–
(1)

(21)

(22)

In preparing the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010 the Emerging Markets segment included 
the South African and Namibian businesses but excluded all other African businesses. This was consistent with prior periods. 
Following a period of greater political and currency stability in Zimbabwe and an expectation that the Group will be able to extract 
benefits from its Zimbabwean business it has been consolidated for the first time together with operations in Kenya, Malawi, 
Swaziland and Nigeria. Further detail has been provided in note A2.

On 30 December 2011 USAM disposed of Lincluden Management Ltd, a subsidiary, at a profit of £2 million. On 27 August 2010 
USAM disposed of Thomson, Horstmann & Bryant, a subsidiary, for a loss of £21 million.

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(d) Short-term fluctuations in investment return
Profit before tax includes actual investment returns earned on the shareholder assets of the Group’s life assurance and general 
insurance businesses. Adjusted operating profit is stated after recalculating shareholder asset investment returns based on a 
long-term investment return rate. The difference between the actual and the long-term investment returns are short-term fluctuations 
in investment return.

Long-term rates of return are based on achieved rates of return appropriate to the underlying asset base, adjusted for current 
inflation expectations, default assumptions, costs of investment management and consensus economic investment forecasts. The 
long-term rates of return are reviewed frequently, usually annually, for appropriateness. These rates of return have been selected with 
a view to ensuring that returns credited to adjusted operating profit are consistent with the actual returns expected to be earned over 
the long term.

For Emerging Markets, the return is applied to an average value of investible shareholders’ assets, adjusted for net fund flows. For 
Retail Europe and Wealth Management, the return is applied to average investible assets. For M&F general insurance business, the 
return is an average value of investible assets supporting shareholders’ funds and insurance liabilities, adjusted for net fund flows.

%

Year ended 
 31 December 
 2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

9.0
2.1
2.0
9.0

9.4
2.5
2.0
9.4

£m

Total

112
283

(171)

£m

Total

246
328

(82)

Long-term investment rates

Emerging Markets
Retail Europe
Wealth Management
M&F

Analysis of short-term fluctuations in investment return

Year ended 31 December 2011

Actual shareholder investment return
Less: Long-term investment return

Short-term fluctuations in investment return

Emerging 
Markets

Retail 
Europe

Wealth
Management*

Total 
Long-Term 
Savings

M&F

Other

14
112

(98)

1
2

(1)

65
78

(13)

80
192

(112)

26
54

(28)

6
37

(31)

Year ended 31 December 2010**

Actual shareholder investment return
Less: Long-term investment return

Short-term fluctuations in investment return

Emerging 
Markets

Retail 
Europe

Wealth 
Management*

109
108

1

2
1

1

61
132

(71)

Total  
Long-Term 
Savings

172
241

(69)

M&F

Other

49
56

(7)

25
31

(6)

* Wealth Management long-term investment return includes £65 million (2010: £121 million) in respect of income tax attributable to policyholder returns. 
** The year ended 31 December 2010 has been restated to reflect Nordic as discontinued and non-core.

(e) Investment return adjustment for Group equity and debt instruments held in life funds
Adjusted operating profit includes investment returns on policyholder investments in Group equity and debt instruments held by the 
Group’s life funds. These include investments in the Company’s ordinary shares, and the subordinated liabilities and ordinary 
securities of Nedbank. These investment returns are eliminated within the consolidated income statement in arriving at profit before 
tax, but are included in adjusted operating profit. In 2011 the investment return adjustment increased adjusted operating profit by 
£71 million (2010: increase of £10 million).

(f) Dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable securities
Dividends declared to the holders of the Group’s perpetual preferred callable securities were £44 million in the year ended 
31 December 2011 (2010: £44 million). These are recognised in finance costs on an accruals basis for the purpose of 
determining adjusted operating profit. In the IFRS financial statements this cost is recognised in equity.

(g) US Asset Management equity plans and non-controlling interests
US Asset Management has a number of long-term incentive arrangements with senior employees in its asset management affiliates.

In accordance with IFRS requirements the cost of these schemes is disclosed as being attributable to non-controlling interests. 
However, this is treated as a compensation expense in determining adjusted operating profit. The loss recognised in 2011 was 
£6 million (2010: loss £9 million).

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

C: Other key performance information continued
C1: Operating profit adjusting items continued
The Group has issued put options to senior employees as part of some of its US affiliate incentive schemes. The impact of revaluing 
these instruments is recognised in accordance with IFRS, but excluded from adjusted operating profit. At 31 December 2011 these 
instruments were revalued, the impact of which was a profit of £10 million (2010: profit £3 million).

(h) Credit-related fair value gains and losses on Group debt instruments
The widening of credit spread of the Group’s debt instruments in the market price has resulted in gains of £27 million (2010: losses 
due to narrowing of £183 million) on Other operating segments and losses of £4 million (2010: losses of £20 million) in Nedbank being 
recorded in the Group’s income statement for those instruments that are recorded at fair value.

In the directors’ view, such movements are not reflective of the underlying performance of the Group and will reverse over time. They 
have therefore been excluded from adjusted operating profit.

C2: Foreign currencies
The principal exchange rates used to translate the operating results, assets and liabilities of key foreign business segments to 
pounds sterling are:

Rand
US dollars
Swedish kronor
Euro

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Income 
statement 
(average rate)

Statement  
of financial 
position 
(closing rate)

Income 
statement 
(average rate)

Statement of 
financial 
position 
(closing rate)

11.6445
1.6037
10.4144
1.1519

12.5643
1.5553
10.6801
1.1970

11.3095
1.5459
11.1364
1.1650

10.2796
1.5530
10.4227
1.1614

C3: Earnings and earnings per share
(a) Basic and diluted earnings per share
Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing the profit for the financial year attributable to ordinary equity shareholders by the 
weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue during the year excluding own shares held in policyholder funds, ESOP trusts, 
Black Economic Empowerment trusts and other related undertakings.

Profit for the financial year attributable to equity holders of the parent from continuing operations
Profit/(loss) for the financial year attributable to equity holders of the parent from discontinued operations

Profit/(loss) for the financial year attributable to equity holders of the parent
Dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable securities

Profit/(loss) attributable to ordinary equity holders

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
 2010 
Restated 

446
(728)

(282)
(32)

(314)

Year ended  
31 December  

2011

469
198

667
(32)

635

Total dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable securities of £44 million in 2011 (2010: £44 million) are stated net of 
tax credits of £12 million (2010: £12 million).

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Weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue
Shares held in charitable foundations
Shares held in ESOP trusts

Adjusted weighted average number of ordinary shares
Shares held in life funds
Shares held in Black Economic Empowerment trusts

Weighted average number of ordinary shares

Basic earnings per ordinary share (pence)

Millions

Year ended 
 31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

5,502
(6)
(61)

5,435
(201)
(299)

4,935

12.9

5,422
(7)
(56)

5,359
(205)
(295)

4,859

(6.5)

Diluted earnings per share recognises the dilutive impact of share options held in ESOP trusts and Black Economic Empowerment 
trusts which are currently in the money in the calculation of the weighted average number of shares, as if the relevant shares were in 
issue for the full period.

Profit/(loss) attributable to ordinary equity holders (£m)
Dilution effect on profit/(loss) relating to share options issued by subsidiaries (£m)

Diluted profit/(loss) attributable to ordinary equity holders (£m)

Weighted average number of ordinary shares (millions)
Adjustments for share options held by ESOP trusts (millions)
Adjustments for shares held in Black Economic Empowerment trusts (millions)

Diluted earnings per ordinary share (pence)

Year ended  
31 December 
2011 

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

635
(8)

627

4,935
133
299

5,367

11.7

(314)
(8)

(322)

4,859
137
295

5,291

(6.1)

(b) Adjusted operating earnings per ordinary share
The reconciliation of profit/(loss) for the financial year to adjusted operating profit after tax attributable to ordinary equity holders is as 
follows:

Profit/(loss) for the financial year attributable to equity holders of the parent
Adjusting items
Tax on adjusting items
Non-core operations 
(Profit)/loss from discontinued operations
Non-controlling interest on adjusting items

Adjusted operating profit after tax attributable to ordinary equity holders

Adjusted weighted average number of ordinary shares (millions)

Adjusted operating earnings per ordinary share (pence)

£m

Year ended 
 31 December 
2010  

Restated

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

667
329
(108)
184
(198)
(19)

855

5,435

15.7

(282)
392
(33)
(19)
728
(21)

765

5,359

14.3

(c) Headline earnings per share
In accordance with the JSE Limited (JSE) listing requirements, the Group is required to calculate a ‘headline earnings per share’ 
(HEPS), determined by reference to the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants’ circular 3/2009 ‘Headline Earnings’. The 
table below sets out a reconciliation of basic earnings per ordinary share and HEPS in accordance with that circular. Disclosure of 
HEPS is not a requirement of IFRS.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

C: Other key performance information continued
C3: Earning and earnings per share continued

Year ended  
31 December 2011

Year ended  
31 December 2010 

£m

Profit/(loss) for the financial year attributable to equity holders of the parent
Dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable securities

Profit/(loss) attributable to ordinary equity holders
Adjustments:

Impairments of goodwill and intangible assets
Impairment of discontinued operations
(Profit)/loss on acquisition/disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and
  strategic investments
Realised gains (including impairments) on available-for-sale financial assets

Headline earnings

Weighted average number of ordinary shares

Diluted weighted average number of ordinary shares

Headline earnings per share (pence)

Diluted headline earnings per share (pence)

C4: Dividends
Dividends paid were as follows:

Gross

667
(32)

635

264
–

(222)
(144)

533

4,935

5,367

10.8

9.8

Net

667
(32)

635

264
–

(228)
(144)

527

4,935

5,367

10.7

9.7

Gross

(282)
(32)

(314)

20
827

22
(12)

543

4,859

5,291

11.2

10.1

Net

(282)
(32)

(314)

20
827

17
(12)

538

4,859

5,291

11.1

10.0

£m

2009 Final dividend paid – 1.5p per 10p share 
2010 Interim dividend paid – 1.1p per 10p share
2010 Final dividend paid – 2.9p per 10p share
2011 Interim dividend paid – 1.5p per 10p share

Dividends to ordinary equity holders
Dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable securities

Dividend payments for the year

Year ended 
 31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

Note

–
–
145

76
221
44

265

77
54
–

–
131
44

175

F10(b)

Dividends paid to ordinary equity holders, as above, are calculated using the number of shares in issue at the record date, less 
treasury shares held in ESOP trusts, life funds of Group companies, Black Economic Empowerment trusts and related undertakings.

As a consequence of the exchange control arrangements in place in certain African territories, dividends to ordinary equity holders 
on the branch registers of those countries (or, in the case of Namibia, the Namibian section of the principal register) are settled 
through Dividend Access Trusts established for that purpose.

In March and November 2011, £22 million and £22 million respectively were declared and paid to holders of perpetual preferred 
callable securities (March 2010: £22 million and November 2010: £22 million).

A final dividend of 3.5 pence per 10p share has been recommended by the directors. Subject to shareholders’ approval, the dividend 
will be paid on 7 June 2012 to shareholders on the register at the close of business on 20 April 2012. The dividend will absorb an 
estimated £175 million of shareholders’ funds. The Company is not planning to offer a scrip dividend alternative.

In addition the Company announced on 3 February 2012 that as part of the proposed sale of the Nordic business unit a special 
dividend of 18.0 pence per 10p share has been recommended by the directors. The special dividend will be paid on 7 June 2012 to 
shareholders on the register at the close of business on 20 April 2012 subject to both shareholder approval of the Nordic disposal 
and the related share consolidation and completion of the Nordic disposal. The special dividend will absorb an estimated £1.0 billion 
of shareholders’ funds. Further details of the disposal of the Nordic business unit have been provided in notes A2, H1 and H2.

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D: Other income statement notes
D1: Income tax expense
(a) Analysis of total income tax expense

Current tax
United Kingdom tax 
Overseas tax

South Africa
United States
Europe

Secondary Tax on Companies (STC)
Prior year adjustments

Total current tax

Deferred tax
Origination and reversal of temporary differences
Changes in tax rates/bases
Recognition of deferred tax assets

Total deferred tax

Total income tax expense

(b) Reconciliation of total income tax expense

Profit before tax

Tax at standard rate of 26.5% (2010: 28%)
Different tax rate or basis on overseas operations
Untaxed and low taxed income
Disallowable expenses
Net movement on deferred tax assets not recognised
Effect on deferred tax of changes in tax rates
STC
Income tax attributable to policyholder returns
Other

Total income tax expense

(c) Income tax relating to components of other comprehensive income

Preferred perpetual callable securities
Other

Income tax credit – continuing operations

Fair value gains
Shadow accounting

Income tax (credit)/expense – discontinued operations 

Income tax (credit)/expense relating to components of other comprehensive income

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2010 
Restated

Year ended  
31 December 
 2011

22

390
(2)
20
14
(7)

437

(204)
(8)
–

(212)

225

23

346
(4)
10
4
(1)

378

10
(4)
7

13

391

Year ended 
 31 December 
2011

994

263
57
(166)
93
5
(8)
19
(28)
(10)

225

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2010  

Restated

1,095

307
(19)
(146)
90
85
(7)
(3)
96
(12)

391

£m

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31 December 
2010  

Restated

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

(12)
–

(12)

2
(4)

(2)

(14)

(12)
(1)

(13)

181
(114)

67

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

D: Other income statement notes continued
D1: Income tax expense continued
(d) Income tax on adjusted operating profit

Income tax expense
Tax on adjusting items
Impact of acquisition accounting
Profit on disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic investments
Short-term fluctuations in investment return
Income tax attributable to policyholders returns
Tax on dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable securities recognised in equity
Fair value gains and losses on Group debt instruments
US Asset Management equity plans
Tax on non-core operations

Income tax on adjusted operating profit

D2: Investment return (non-banking)

Interest and similar income 
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Government and government-guaranteed securities
Other debt securities, preference shares and debentures
Pooled investments
Short-term funds and securities treated as investments
Other
Cash and cash equivalents

Total interest and similar income
Dividend income – investments and securities
Equity securities
Pooled investments
Fair value gains and losses recognised in income
Investments and securities
Derivatives
Other
Rental income from investment property
Investment property (losses)/gains on revaluation
Foreign currency losses

Total investment return recognised in income

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£m

 Year ended  
 31 December  
2010  

Restated

Year ended 
 31 December 
 2011

225

35
6
75
9
(12)
2
2
(1)

341

391

31
5
4
(101)
(12)
5
–
4

327

Year ended 
 31 December 
2011

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2010 
 Restated

8
1,151
348
412
136
164
91
94

1,253
431
339
92
(2,352)
(2,105)
10
(257)
180
(78)
(1)

(567)

47
1,218
368
378
271
184
17
100

1,365
327
301
26
7,713
7,453
(87)
347
166
30
(48)

9,553

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 31 December 
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£m

Year ended 
31 December  
2010  

Restated

Total interest income for assets not at fair value through income statement

36

97

The fair value gains and losses shown above are analysed according to their IAS 39 categorisations as follows:
Held-for-trading (including derivatives)
Designated at fair value through income statement
Available-for-sale financial assets

25
(2,378)
1

(2,352)

(87)
7,800
–

7,713

Fair value gains/(losses) on available-for-sale financial assets reflect the amount previously recognised as unrealised within the 
available-for-sale reserve in equity that has been recycled to the income statement on disposal or impairment of the particular assets.

Fair value gains and losses on available-for-sale investments and securities for the year of £1 million (2010: £nil) relate to debt 
securities held by the Group’s Bermuda businesses.

D3: Banking interest and similar income

Loans and advances
Mortgage loans
Finance lease and instalment debtors
Credit cards
Bills and acceptances
Overdrafts
Term loans and other
Investments and securities
Government and government-guaranteed securities
Other debt securities, preference shares and debentures

Total interest and similar income

Total interest income for assets not at fair value through income statement
Total interest income on impaired financial assets

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2010 
Restated

3,300
1,577
608
100
1
105
909
369
264
105

3,589
1,736
646
98
2
118
989
324
259
65

3,669

3,913

3,154
121

3,417
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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

D: Other income statement notes continued
D4: Banking trading, investment and similar income

Dividend income – investments and securities
Equity securities
Rental income from investment property
Exchange and other non-interest income
Derivative income
Exchange
Securities dealing
Fair value losses
Net trading income
Foreign exchange
Debt securities
Equities
Other

Total banking trading, investment and similar income

The fair value gains and losses shown above are analysed according to their IAS 39 categorisations as follows:
Held-for-trading (including derivatives)
Designated at fair value through income statement

Realised fair value gains included in the above

D5: Fee and commission income, and income from service activities

Year ended 31 December 2011

Fee and commission income
Transaction and performance fees
Change in deferred revenue

Year ended 31 December 2010

Fee and commission income
Transaction and performance fees
Change in deferred revenue

Long-term 
business

Asset 
management

Banking

General 
insurance

1,003
–
(45)

958

1,048
20
(1)

1,067

975
–
1

976

34
–
–

34

Long-term 
business

Asset 
management

Banking

General 
insurance

979
–
(73)

906

1,043
22
(9)

1,056

832
–
1

833

28
–
–

28

The amounts shown above for asset management relate to fees earned on trust and fiduciary activities where the Group holds or 
invests assets on behalf of its customers.

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31 December 
2011

£m

Year ended  
31 December  
2010 
Restated

37
37
4
(10)
103
1
(113)
(1)
186
94
55
34
3

217

(41)
40

(1)

(1)

22
22
4
(7)
65
–
(68)
(4)
180
92
63
24
1

199

(97)
93

(4)

(4)

£m

Total

3,060
20
(45)

3,035

£m

Total 
Restated

2,882
22
(81)

2,823

D6: Finance costs

Interest payable on borrowed funds
Senior debt and term loans
Subordinated debt
Other
Fair value gains and losses on borrowed funds
Borrowed funds
Derivative instruments
Foreign currency gains and losses on borrowed funds
Reserve movements relating to debt and derivative instruments

Total finance costs excluding banking activities

Finance costs from banking activities

D7

Total interest expense included above for liabilities not at fair value through income statement

The fair value gains and losses shown above are analysed according to their IAS 39 
categorisations as follows:
Held-for-trading (including derivatives)
Designated at fair value through income statement

D7: Banking interest payable and similar expense

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

Note

87
37
65
(15)
(32)
11
(43)
3
–

58

209

23

(43)
11

(32)

79
44
68
(33)
189
166
23
2
(1)

269

202

25

23
166

189

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010 
Restated

Amounts owed to bank depositors
Deposits and loan accounts
Current and savings accounts
Negotiable certificates of deposit
Banking non-interest credit spreads
Long-term debt instruments
Other liabilities

Total interest payable and similar expenses

Total interest expense included above for liabilities not at fair value through income statement

D8: Fee and commission expenses, and other acquisition costs 

1,953
1,106
20
614
4
209
142

2,095

1,686

Year ended  
31 December

Fee and commission 

expenses

Changes in deferred 
acquisition costs
Other acquisition costs

Long-term business

Asset management

General insurance

Total

2011

2010

591

8
60

659

596

(20)
56

632

2011

243

(4)
–

239

2010

173

(4)
7

176

2011

110

(1)
–

109

2010

109

–
–

109

2011

944

3
60

1,007

2,235
1,234
44
736
19
202
206

2,441

2,063

£m

2010
Restated

878

(24)
63

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

D: Other income statement notes continued
D9: Other operating and administrative expenses
(a) Other operating and administrative expenses include:

Staff costs
Depreciation
Software costs
Operating lease rentals – banking
Operating lease rentals – non-banking
Amortisation of PVIF and other acquired intangibles 
Impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets

Note

D9(b)

F2

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2010  

Restated

Year ended  
31 December 
2011 

1,964
104
11
65
29
211
264

1,808
100
11
63
31
216
20

Included within the gain from discontinued operations is an additional amortisation of intangibles charge of £74 million 
(2010: £150 million)

Year ended  
31 December 
2011 

Note

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2010  

Restated

1,259
33

1,191
34

101
(3)
10
359

37
24
144

96
(3)
12
339

7
13
119

1,964

1,808

G2(e)

G2(e)

Number

22,851
28,494
2,390
1,564
210
40

55,549
1,881

57,430

(b) Staff costs

Staff costs
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Retirement obligations

Defined contribution plans
Defined benefit plans
Other retirement benefits

Bonus and incentive remuneration
Share-based payments

Cash settled
Equity settled

Other

The average number of persons employed by the Group during 2011 was:
Long-Term Savings
Nedbank
M&F
USAM
Other
Non-core operations

Discontinued operations

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(c) Fees to Group’s auditors
Included in other operating expenses and loss from discontinued operations are fees paid to the Group’s auditors. These can be 
categorised as follows:

Fees for audit services

Group
Subsidiaries
Pension schemes

Total audit fees

Fees for non-audit services
Audit related assurance
Taxation compliance 
Taxation advisory
Corporate finance transactions
Other non-audit services

Total non-audit services

Total Group auditors’ remuneration

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

1.4
12.1
0.2

13.7

0.7
1.4
0.4
0.2
0.7

3.4

17.1

1.5
12.3
0.3

14.1

1.1
1.6
0.6
0.4
2.3

6.0

20.1

In addition to the above, fees of £4.4 million (2010: £4.3 million) were payable to other auditors in respect of joint audit arrangements 
of Nedbank, the Group’s banking subsidiary in South Africa. Of the fees for audit services to subsidiaries, £nil million (2010: 
£1.1 million) is in respect of discontinued US Life operations and £0.6 million (2010: £0.8 million) is in respect of the discontinued 
Nordic business unit.

(d) Operating lease payments

Payments under operating leases recognised as an expense in the year

Banking
Non-banking

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

65
12

77

63
33

96

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities
E1: Group statement of financial position
The Group is exposed to financial risk through its financial assets (investments and loans), financial liabilities (investment contracts, 
customer deposits and borrowings), reinsurance assets and insurance liabilities. The key focus of financial risk management for the 
Group is ensuring that the proceeds from its financial assets are sufficient to fund the obligations arising from its insurance and 
banking operations. The most important components of financial risk are credit risk, market risk (arising from changes in equity, and 
bond prices, interest and foreign exchange rates), and liquidity risk. Market risk arises from open positions in interest rate, currency 
and equity products, all of which are exposed to general and specific market movements and/or conditions.

(a) Categories of financial instruments
The analysis of assets and liabilities into their categories as defined in IAS 39 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’ 
is set out in the following table. For completeness, assets and liabilities of a non-financial nature, or financial assets and liabilities that 
are specifically excluded from the scope of IAS 39, are reflected in the non-financial assets and liabilities category.

At 31 December 2011

Assets
Mandatory reserve deposits with central

banks

Reinsurers’ share of policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other financial assets
Derivative financial instruments – assets
Cash and cash equivalents

Total financial assets
Non-financial assets

Liabilities
Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Third-party interest in consolidation of 

funds

Borrowed funds
Other financial liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Total financial liabilities
Non-financial liabilities

Fair value through  
income statement

Held-for-

Total

trading Designated

Available- 
for-sale 
financial 
assets

Held-to-
maturity 
investments

Loans and 
receivables

Financial 
liabilities 
amortised 
cost

Non-
financial 
assets and 
liabilities

£m

951
989
39,764
81,253
3,348
1,795
3,624

131,724
30,661

162,385

–
–
1,586
1,155
530
1,795
–

5,066
–

5,066

–
784
3,970
77,789
828
–
–

83,371
–

83,371

76,350

–

55,333

1,893
3,656
4,243
40,978
1,755

128,875
22,652

151,527

–
–
547
3,068
1,755

5,370
–

5,370

1,893
1,071
349
6,870
–

65,516
–

65,516

–
–
–
988
–
–
–

988
–

988

–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–

–
–
–
677
–
–
–

677
–

677

951
21
34,208
644
1,591
–
3,624

41,039
–

41,039

28

176

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–

–

–
–
–
–
–

28
–

28

–
–
–
–
–

176
–

176

–
2,585
2,434
31,040
–

36,059
–

36,059

–
184
–
–
399
–
–

583
30,661

31,244

20,813

–
–
913
–
–

21,726
22,652

44,378

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At 31 December 2010

Assets
Mandatory reserve deposits with central 

banks

Reinsurers’ share of policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other financial assets
Derivative financial instruments – assets
Cash and cash equivalents

Total financial assets
Non-financial assets

Liabilities
Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidation of 

funds

Borrowed funds
Other financial liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Total financial liabilities
Non-financial liabilities

Fair value through  
income statement

Total

Held-for-
trading

Designated

Available-
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assets

Held-to- 
maturity 
investments

Loans and 
receivables

Financial 
liabilities 
amortised 
cost

Non-
financial 
assets and 
liabilities

£m

1,079
1,104
51,778
106,153
3,934
2,503
4,132

170,683
22,869

193,552

–
–
1,914
1,370
507
2,503
–

6,294
–

6,294

–
816
4,223
100,898
1,064
–
–

107,001
–

107,001

98,631

–

72,200

3,584
4,204
5,661
53,236
1,870

167,186
14,892

182,078

–
–
1,155
3,484
1,870

6,509
–

6,509

3,584
1,579
576
8,703
–

86,642
–

86,642

–
–
–
2,459
–
–
–

2,459
–

2,459

–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–

–
–
–
1,070
–
–
–

1,070
–

1,070

1,079
38
45,641
356
2,044
–
4,132

53,290
–

53,290

26

160

–
–
–
–
–
–
–

–
–

–

–

–
–
–
–
–

26
–

26

–
–
–
–
–

160
–

160

–
2,625
2,960
41,049
–

46,634
–

46,634

–
250
–
–
319
–
–

569
22,869

23,438

26,245

–
–
970
–
–

27,215
14,892

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(b) Fair values of financial assets and liabilities
Determination of fair value
All financial instruments, regardless of their IAS 39 categorisation, are initially recorded at fair value. The fair value of a financial 
instrument on initial recognition is normally the transaction price, that is, the fair value of the consideration given or received. In 
certain circumstances, however, the initial fair value may be based on other observable current market transactions in the same 
instrument, without modification or repackaging, or on a valuation technique whose variables include only observable data.

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based on bid prices for assets, which in certain circumstances includes using quotations from independent third parties such as 
brokers and pricing services, and offer prices for liabilities. When quoted prices are not available, fair values are determined by using 
valuation techniques that refer as far as possible to observable market data. These include comparison with similar instruments 
where market observable prices exist, discounted cash flow analysis, option pricing models and other valuation techniques 
commonly used by market participants. A number of factors such as bid-offer spread, credit profile, servicing costs and model 
uncertainty are taken into account, as appropriate, when values are calculated using a valuation technique. Changes in the 
assumptions used in such valuations could impact the reported value of such instruments.

In general none of the carrying amounts of financial assets and liabilities carried at amortised cost have a fair value significantly 
different to their carrying amounts. Such assets and liabilities primarily comprise of variable-rate financial assets and liabilities that 
reprice as interest rates change, short-term deposits or current assets.

Loans and advances
Loans and advances principally comprise of variable rate financial assets and liabilities, which are re-priced when there are 
movements in the interest rates.

The Group has developed and applied a fair value methodology in respect of gross exposures of loans and advances that are 
measured at amortised cost. The methodology incorporates the historical interest rates per product type and the projected monthly 
cash flows per product type. Future forecasts for the overall probability of default (PD) and Loss Given Defaults (LGDs) for periods 
2012 to 2014 (2010: for periods 2011 to 2013), based on the latest internal data available, are applied to the first three years’ 
projected cash flows. Average PDs and LGDs are applied to the projected cash flows for later years. These results are compared to 
both regulatory and accounting credit model values. There are no significant variances in the fair value methodology results 
compared to the carrying values reported in these financial statements.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E1: Group statement of financial position continued
(b) Fair values of financial assets and liabilities continued
Loans and advances continued
For impaired advances, the carrying value as determined from the Group’s credit models is considered the best estimate of fair 
value. The Group is satisfied that, after considering the internal credit models together with other assumptions and the variable 
interest rate exposure, the carrying value of loans and advances measured at amortised cost approximates fair value.

Investments and securities
Investments and securities include government and government-guaranteed securities, listed and unlisted debt securities, 
preference shares and debentures, listed and unlisted equity securities, listed and unlisted pooled investments (see below), short-
term funds and securities treated as investments and certain other securities.

Pooled investments represent the Group’s holdings of shares/units in open-ended investment companies, unit trusts, mutual funds 
and similar investment vehicles. Pooled investments are stated at fair value. The fair values of pooled investments are based on 
widely published prices that are regularly updated or models based on the market prices of investments held in the underlying 
pooled investment funds.

Investment contracts
The approach to determining the fair values of investment contracts is set out in the accounting policies section for insurance and 
investment contract business.

Amounts owed to bank depositors
The fair values of amounts owed to bank depositors corresponds with the carrying amount shown in the statement of financial 
position, which generally reflects the amount payable on demand.

Borrowed funds
The fair values of amounts included in borrowed funds are based on quoted market prices at the reporting date where applicable, or 
by reference to quoted prices of similar instruments.

Other financial assets and liabilities
The fair values of other financial assets and liabilities (which comprise of cash and cash equivalents, cash with central banks, other 
assets and liabilities) are reasonably approximated by the carrying amounts reflected in the statement of financial position as they are 
short-term in nature or re-price to current market rates frequently.

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Fair value hierarchy
Fair values are determined according to the following hierarchy.

 ■ Level 1 – quoted market prices: financial assets and liabilities with quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets. 

Instruments classified as Level 1 generally comprise listed equity securities, government securities and other listed debt securities 
and similar instruments, actively traded pooled investments, certain quoted derivative assets and liabilities, listed borrowed funds 
and investment contract liabilities linked to Level 1 pooled investments and other assets.

 ■ Level 2 – valuation techniques using observable inputs: financial assets and liabilities with quoted prices for similar instruments in 
active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in inactive markets and financial assets and liabilities valued 
using models where all significant inputs are observable. Instruments classified as Level 2 generally comprise unlisted equity and 
debt securities where the valuation is based on models involving no significant unobservable data. This includes certain loans and 
advances, certain privately placed debt instruments, third-party interests in consolidated funds and amounts owed to bank 
depositors.

 ■ Level 3 – valuation techniques using significant unobservable inputs: financial assets and liabilities valued using valuation 

techniques where one or more significant inputs are unobservable. Instruments classified as Level 3 generally comprise unlisted 
equity and securities with significant unobservable inputs, securities where the market is not considered sufficiently active, 
including certain inactive pooled investments, and derivatives embedded in certain portfolios of insurance contracts where the 
derivative is not closely related to the host contract and the valuation contains significant unobservable inputs.

The best evidence of fair value is a quoted price in an active market. In the event that the market for a financial asset or liability is not 
active, or quoted prices cannot be obtained without undue effort, a valuation technique is used.

The judgement as to whether a market is active may include, for example, consideration of factors such as the magnitude and 
frequency of trading activity, the availability of prices and the size of bid/offer spreads. In inactive markets, obtaining assurance that 
the transaction price provides evidence of fair value or determining the adjustments to transaction prices that are necessary to 
measure the fair value of the asset or liability requires additional work during the valuation process.

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E1: Group statement of financial position continued
(b) Fair values of financial assets and liabilities continued
The majority of valuation techniques employ only observable market data, and so the reliability of the fair value measurement is high. 
However, certain financial assets and liabilities are valued on the basis of valuation techniques that feature one or more significant 
market inputs that are unobservable and, for them, the derivation of fair value is more judgemental. A financial asset or liability in its 
entirety is classified as valued using significant unobservable inputs if a significant proportion of that asset or liability’s carrying 
amount is driven by unobservable inputs. In this context, ‘unobservable’ means that there is little or no current market data available 
for which to determine the price at which an arm’s length transaction would be likely to occur. It generally does not mean that there is 
no market data available at all upon which to base a determination of fair value. Furthermore, in some cases the majority of the fair 
value derived from a valuation technique with significant unobservable inputs may be attributable to observable inputs. 
Consequently, the effect of uncertainty in determining unobservable inputs will generally be restricted to uncertainty about the overall 
fair value of the asset or liability being measured.

Additional information on the impact of unobservable inputs is provided in the section headed ‘Effect of changes in significant 
unobservable assumptions to reasonably possible alternatives’.

Fair value hierarchy

At 31 December 2011

Financial assets measured at fair value
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other assets
Derivative financial instruments – assets

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Reinsurers’ share of policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other assets

Available-for-sale financial assets
Investments and securities

Total financial assets measured at fair value

Financial liabilities measured at fair value
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Other liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidated funds
Borrowed funds
Other liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors

Total

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

£m

5,066
1,586
1,155
530
1,795

83,371
784
3,970
77,789
828

988
988

764
–
234
530
–

62,368
782
2
60,808
776

459
459

4,294
1,586
915
–
1,793

20,002
2
3,961
15,987
52

525
525

8
–
6
–
2

1,001
–
7
994
–

4
4

89,425

63,591

24,821

1,013

5,370
547
3,068
1,755

65,516
55,333
1,893
1,071
349
6,870

555
542
–
13

33,213
32,156
–
1,057
–
–

4,814
5
3,068
1,741

31,282
22,156
1,893
14
349
6,870

1
–
–
1

1,021
1,021
–
–
–
–

Total financial liabilities measured at fair value

70,886

33,768

36,096

1,022

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Fair value hierarchy
At 31 December 2010

Financial assets measured at fair value
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other assets
Derivative financial instruments – assets

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Reinsurers’ share of policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other assets

Available-for-sale financial assets
Investments and securities

Total financial assets measured at fair value

Financial liabilities measured at fair value
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Other liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidated funds
Borrowed funds
Other liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors

Total financial liabilities measured at fair value

93,151

48,810

43,580

Total

Level 1

Level 2

6,294
1,914
1,370
507
2,503

107,001
816
4,223
100,898
1,064

2,459
2,459

810
–
302
506
2

87,081
813
2
86,244
22

579
579

5,444
1,911
1,031
1
2,501

18,490
3
4,221
13,224
1,042

1,872
1,872

£m

Level 3

40
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–

1,430
–
–
1,430
–

8
8

115,754

88,470

25,806

1,478

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1,155
3,484
1,870

86,642
72,200
3,584
1,579
576
8,703

1,132
1,123
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9

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46,099
–
1,579
–
–

5,376
32
3,484
1,860

38,204
25,341
3,584
–
576
8,703

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–
–
–
–

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E1: Group statement of financial position continued
(b) Fair values of financial assets and liabilities continued

Year ended 31 December 2011

Level 3 financial assets
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Derivative financial instruments – assets

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Loans and advances

Investments and securities

Available-for-sale financial assets

Investments and securities

Total Level 3 financial assets

Level 3 financial liabilities
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Life assurance policyholder liabilities (investment contracts)

Total Level 3 financial liabilities

Year ended 31 December 2010

Level 3 financial assets
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Derivative financial instruments – assets

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Investments and securities

Available-for-sale financial assets

Investments and securities

Total Level 3 financial assets

Level 3 financial liabilities
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Life assurance policyholder liabilities (investment contracts)

Total Level 3 financial liabilities

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At  
beginning of 
the year

Gains/losses 
recognised in 
income 
statement

Gains/losses 
recognised in 
other 
comprehensive 
income

Purchases  
and issues

 Sales and 
Settlements

40
3
37
–

1,430
–

1,430

8
8

1,478

1

1
760
760

761

5
–
2
3

79
–

79

–
–

84

(1)

(1)
240
240

239

–
–
–
–

–
–

–

–
–

–

1

1
–
–

1

4
–
4
–

51
–

51

4
4

59

–

–
–
–

–

(10)
(3)
(7)
–

(440)
–

(440)

(8)
(8)

(458)

–

–
(52)
(52)

(52)

At  
beginning of  

the year

Gains/losses 
recognised in 
income 
statement

Gains/losses 
recognised in 
other 
comprehensive 
income

Purchases  
and issues

 Sales and 
Settlements

36
7
28
1

1,784

1,784

448

448

2,268

1,365
1,352

13
596
596

1,961

(10)
(1)
(9)
–

164

164

–

–

154

(3)
–

(3)
(31)
(31)

(34)

–
–
–
–

6

6

–

–

6

–
–

–
–
–

–

–
–
–
–

94

94

5

5

99

–
–

–
2
2

2

(5)
(3)
(1)
(1)

(240)

(240)

(1)

(1)

(246)

1
–

1
(54)
(54)

(53)

 
 
Transfers  
in 

Transfers  
out 

Foreign  
exchange  
and other  

movements*

At end  

of the year

Gains/losses 
recognised in 
 income  

statement

£m

Gains/losses 
recognised in  
other  
comprehensive 
 income

–
–
–
–

93
7

86

–

–

93

–
–

76
76

76

(27)
–
(27)
–

(41)
–

(41)

–

–

(68)

–
–

(10)
(10)

(10)

(4)
–
(3)
(1)

(171)
–

(171)

–

–

(175)

–
–

7
7

7

8
–
6
2

1,001
7

994

4

4

1,013

1
1

1,021
1,021

1,022

–
–
–
–

(21)
–

(21)

–

–

(21)

–
–

(240)
(240)

(240)

–
–
–
–

–
–

–

–

–

–

–
–

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–

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Transfers  
out 

Foreign  
exchange  
and other  

movements*

At end  

of the year

Gains/losses 
recognised in 
 income  

statement

£m

Gains/losses 
recognised in  
other  
comprehensive 
 income

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–
–
–

20

20

5

5

25

–
–
–

18
18

18

(1)
–
(1)
–

(433)

(433)

(31)

(31)

(465)

(3)
–
(3)

(262)
(262)

(265)

20
–
20
–

35

35

(418)

(418)

(363)

(1,359)
(1,352)
(7)

491
491

(868)

40
3
37
–

1,430

1,430

8

8

1,478

1
–
1

760
760

761

–
–
–
–

12

12

–

–

12

67
67
–

31
31

98

–
–
–
–

–

–

(8)

(8)

(8)

–
–
–

–
–

–

*  Included within foreign exchange and other movements are the financial assets and liabilities which have been transferred to non-current assets and liabilities 

held for sale (see note H2).

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E1: Group statement of financial position continued
(b) Fair values of financial assets and liabilities continued
The transfers into Level 3 largely relate to instances where inputs on certain financial assets and liabilities obtained from pricing service 
providers are no longer observable. The transfers out of Level 3 relate to certain pooled investments no longer being considered inactive 
and for which observable inputs are now available. There were no significant transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 during the year.

Effect of changes in significant unobservable assumptions to reasonably possible alternatives
Favourable and unfavourable changes are determined on the basis of changes in the value of the financial asset or liability as a result 
of varying the levels of the unobservable parameter using statistical techniques. When parameters are not amenable to statistical 
analysis, quantification of uncertainty is judgemental.

When the fair value of a financial asset or liability is affected by more than one unobservable assumption, the figures shown reflect 
the most favourable or most unfavourable change from varying the assumptions individually.

In respect of private equity investments, the valuations are assessed on an asset-by-asset basis using a valuation methodology 
appropriate to the specific investment, in line with industry guidelines. In many of the methodologies, the principal assumption is the 
valuation multiple to be applied to the main financial indicators including, for example, multiples for comparable listed companies and 
discounts to marketability.

For asset-backed securities whose prices are unobservable, models are used to generate the expected value of the asset, incorporating 
benchmark information on factors such as prepayment patterns, default rates, loss severities and the historical performance of the 
underlying assets. The models used are calibrated by using securities for which external market information is available.

For structured notes and other derivatives, principal assumptions concern the future volatility of asset values and the future 
correlation between asset values. These principle assumptions include credit volatilities and correlations used in the valuation of the 
structured credit derivatives. For such unobservable assumptions, estimates are based on available market data, which may include 
the use of a proxy method to derive a volatility or correlation from comparable assets for which market data is more readily available, 
and examination of historical levels.

Analysis of reasonably possible alternative assumptions 

Year ended 31 December 2011

Level 3 financial assets
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Derivative financial instruments – assets

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Investments and securities
Available-for-sale financial assets
Investments and securities

Total Level 3 financial assets

Level 3 financial liabilities
Held-for-trading (fair value through income statement)

Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Designated (fair value through income statement)

Life assurance policyholder liabilities (investment contracts)

Total Level 3 financial liabilities

Reflected in 
 income statement

Reflected in other 
comprehensive income

Favourable 
changes

Unfavourable 
changes

Favourable 
changes

Unfavourable 
changes

£m

5
1
3
1
116
116
–
–

121

–
–
–
35
35

35

3
1
2
–
94
94
–
–

97

–
–
–
63
63

63

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

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–
–
–

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–
–
–
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–
–
–
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For the above analysis, the determination of the impacts of the favourable and unfavourable changes was based on a reasonable 
range of favourable and unfavourable changes in the key observable inputs for the major types of Level 3 financial assets and 
liabilities, ranging from, for example, a 10% change in the price earnings multiple for equity securities, to a 25% change in the 
discount rates applied to debt securities and volatility assumptions in derivative contracts. Changes in other key observable inputs 
such as lapses and non-performance risk were also considered. 

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Financial instruments designated as fair value through income statement
Certain items in the Group’s statement of financial position that would otherwise be categorised as loans and receivables under IAS 
39 have been designated as fair value through income statement. Information relating to the change in fair value of these items as it 
relates to credit risk is shown in the table below:

At 31 December 2011

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other assets

At 31 December 2010

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other assets

£m

Change in fair value due to 
change in credit risk

Maximum  
exposure to  
credit risk

Current  
financial 
 year

Cumulative 

3,970
8,932
71

12,973

–
1
–

1

–
(17)
–

(17)

£m

Change in fair value due to 
change in credit risk

Maximum 
exposure to 
credit risk

Current 
financial 
 year

Cumulative

4,223
9,857
88

14,168

–
(8)
–

(8)

–
11
–

11

Certain items in the Group’s statement of financial position that would otherwise be categorised as financial liabilities at amortised 
cost under IAS 39 have been designated as fair value through income statement. Information relating to the change in fair value of 
these items as it relates to credit risk is shown in the table below:

Change in fair value due to 
change in credit risk

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At 31 December 2010

Borrowed funds
Amounts owed to bank depositors

Fair value

1,071
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Current 
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(23)
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significantly in respect of credit risk.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E1: Group statement of financial position continued
(b) Fair values of financial assets and liabilities continued
The change in fair value due to change in credit risk shown above is determined as the amount of the change in fair value of the 
instrument that is not attributable to changes in market conditions that give rise to market risk. For loans and receivables that have 
been designated as at fair value through the income statement, individual credit spreads are determined at inception as the 
difference between the benchmark interest rate and the interest rate charged to the client. Subsequent changes in the benchmark 
interest rate and the credit spread give rise to changes in fair value of the financial instrument. Loans and advances are reviewed for 
observable changes in credit risk, and the credit spread is adjusted at subsequent dates if there has been an observable change in 
credit risk relating to a particular loan or advance. No credit derivatives are used to hedge the credit risk on any of the financial assets 
designated at fair value through the income statement. The change in fair value due to credit risk of financial liabilities designated at 
fair value through the income statement has been determined as the difference between fair values determined using a liability curve 
(adjusted for credit) and a risk-free liability curve. This difference is cross-checked to market related data on credit spreads, where 
available.

(c) Market risk
(i) Overview
Market risk is the risk of a financial impact arising from the changes in values of financial assets or financial liabilities from changes in 
equity, bond and property prices, interest rates and foreign exchange rates. Market risk arises differently across the Group’s 
businesses depending on the types of financial assets and liabilities held.

Each of the Group’s business units has an established set of policies, principles and governance processes to manage market risk 
within their individual businesses and in accordance with their local regulatory requirements. A monitoring process established at a 
Group level overlies these individual approaches to the management of market risk.

The impacts of changes in market risk are monitored and managed by way of sensitivity analyses, through the business units’ own 
regulatory processes, with reference to the Group’s economic capital processes, and by other means. The sensitivity of the Group’s 
earnings, capital position and embedded value is monitored through the Group’s embedded value reporting processes.

(ii) Insurance operations
For the Group’s insurance operations, equity and property price risk and interest rate risk (on the value of the securities) are modelled 
in accordance with the Group’s risk-based capital practices, which require sufficient capital to be held in excess of the statutory 
minimum to allow the Group to manage significant equity exposures. Additional detail is provided in the Risk and Capital 
Management section.

In South Africa the stock selection and investment analysis process is supported by a well-developed research function. For fixed 
annuities, market risks are managed where possible by investing in fixed interest securities with a duration closely corresponding to 
those liabilities. Market risk on policies that include specific guarantees and where shareholders carry the investment risk principally 
reside in the South African guaranteed non-profit annuity book, which is closely matched with gilts and semi-gilts. Other non-profit 
policies are also suitably matched based upon comprehensive investment guidelines. Market risk on with-profit policies, where 
investment risk is shared, is minimised by appropriate bonus declaration practices.

For the variable annuity business in Old Mutual Bermuda the guaranteed returns are dynamically managed, with the overall 
exposures to changes in markets monitored closely so that actions are taken to re-establish hedging at short notice as required. 
However this does create more short-term risk of volatility in earnings and capital position for the Bermuda operation.

In Skandia’s unit-linked assurance operations, the Group has limited exposure to the volatility from equity markets, because in the 
main, equity price risk is borne by policyholders (subject to the impact on asset-based fees charged on policyholder funds). In 
respect of Skandia’s shareholders’ funds, equity price risks are addressed in Skandia’s investment policy, which provides for very 
limited opportunity for business units to invest their own capital in equities or in units in equity funds.

In some areas of Skandia’s business, most notably its traditional life insurance business, Skandia is exposed to market risks arising 
from various forms of guarantees. Typically the policyholder is guaranteed a certain return regardless of the asset return achieved 
during the term of the policy. These risks are closely monitored and mitigated by applying asset and liability management techniques, 
ensuring that the proceeds from sale of assets are sufficient to meet the obligations to policyholders.

Sensitivities to adverse impacts of changes in market prices arising in the Group’s insurance operations are set out in the Old Mutual 
audited Market Consistent Embedded Value supplementary basis information section of the Annual Report and Accounts on pages 
282 to 284.

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(iii) Banking operations
The principal market risks arising in the Group’s banking operations arise from:

 ■ Trading risk in Nedbank Capital; and
 ■ Banking book interest rate risk arises from repricing and/or maturity mismatches between on and off-balance sheet components 

in all banking businesses.

A comprehensive market risk framework is used to ensure that market risks are understood and managed. Governance structures 
are in place to achieve effective independent monitoring and management of market risk.

Trading risk
Market risk exposures from trading activities at Nedbank Capital are measured using Value-at-Risk (VaR), supplemented by 
sensitivity analysis, and stress-scenario analysis, and limit structures are set accordingly.

The VaR risk measure for Nedbank estimates the potential loss in pre-tax profit over a given holding period for a specified confidence 
level. The VaR methodology is a statistically defined, probability-based approach that takes into account market volatilities as well as 
risk diversification by recognising offsetting positions and correlations between products and markets. Risks can be measured 
consistently across all markets and products, and risk measures can be aggregated to arrive at a single risk number. The one-day 
99% VaR number used by Nedbank represents the overnight loss that has less than 1% chance of occurring under normal market 
conditions. By its nature, VaR is only a single measure and cannot be relied upon on its own as a means of measuring and managing 
risk.

At 31 December

Historical VaR (one-day, 99%) by risk type 
Foreign exchange
Interest rate
Equity products
Other
Diversification

Total VaR exposure

Banking book interest rate risk
Banking book interest rate risk at Nedbank arises because:

Average

Minimum

Maximum

Year end

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

£m

0.3
0.7
0.3
0.2
(0.5)

1.0

0.2
0.9
0.4
0.4
(0.7)

1.2

0.1
0.4
0.2
0.1
–

0.8

0.1
0.4
0.1
0.1
–

0.7

1.1
1.1
0.8
0.4
–

3.4

0.7
1.4
0.9
0.5
–

3.5

0.3
0.4
0.7
0.3
(0.6)

1.1

0.4
0.6
0.3
0.4
(0.6)

1.1

 ■ The bank writes a large quantum of prime-linked assets and raises fewer prime-linked deposits;
 ■ Funding is prudently raised across the curve at fixed-term deposit rates that re-price only on maturity;
 ■ Short-term demand-funding products re-price to different short-end base rates;
 ■ Certain ambiguous maturity accounts are non-rate-sensitive; and
 ■ The bank has a mismatch in net non-rate-sensitive balances, including shareholders’ funds that do not re-price for interest rate 

changes.

Nedbank uses standard analytical techniques to measure interest rate sensitivity within its banking book. This includes static re-price 
gap analysis and a point-in-time interest income stress testing for parallel interest rate moves over a forward-looking 12-month 
period. At 31 December 2011 the sensitivity of the banking book to a 1% instantaneous reduction in interest rates would have led to 
a reduction in net interest income and equity of £67 million (2010: £44 million).

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E1: Group statement of financial position continued
(c) Market risk continued
The table below shows the re-pricing profile of Nedbank’s banking book, which highlights the fact that assets re-price quicker than 
liabilities following derivative hedging activities.

At 31 December 2011

Interest rate re-pricing gap
Total assets
Total liabilities and shareholders’ funds
Interest rate hedging activities
Re-pricing profile
Cumulative re-pricing profile
Expressed as a % of total assets

At 31 December 2010

Interest rate re-pricing gap
Total assets
Total liabilities and shareholders’ funds
Interest rate hedging activities
Re-pricing profile
Cumulative re-pricing profile
Expressed as a % of total assets

Up to 3 
months

3 to 6  

months

6 months  
to 1 year

1 to 5  
years

Over  

5 years

Trading and 
non-rate

38,262
32,895
(236)
5,131
5,131
9.9

704
2,371
1,496
(171)
4,960
9.6

510
2,021
1,083
(428)
4,532
8.8

2,782
1,507
(1,336)
(61)
4,471
8.7

1,165
154
(1,007)
4
4,475
8.7

8,162
12,637
–
(4,475)
–
–

Up to  

3 months

3 to 6  

months

6 months  
to 1 year

1 to 5  
years

Over 
 5 years

Trading and 
non-rate

42,497
35,960
(2,707)
3,830
3,830
6.5

1,138
3,750
2,684
72
3,902
6.6

1,033
2,977
2,134
190
4,092
6.9

2,730
1,673
(333)
724
4,816
8.1

2,040
190
(1,778)
72
4,888
8.3

9,778
14,666
–
(4,888)
–
–

£m

Total

51,585
51,585
–
–
–
–

£m

Total

59,216
59,216
–
–
–
–

(d) Capital management
The Group actively manages its capital with a focus on capital efficiency and effective risk management. The capital objectives are to 
maintain the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern while enabling the ability to identify capital strains and ensuring that the 
return to shareholders is maximised through the optimisation of the debt and equity balance. The Group ensures that it can meet its 
expected capital and financing needs at all times having regard to the Group’s business plans, forecasts and strategic initiatives. It is 
critical that the Group’s capital management policies are aligned with the Group’s overall strategy, business plans and risk appetite. 
The Group’s Capital Management Committee (GCMC) reviews the capital structure regularly, with further detail included in the Risk 
and Capital Management section.

The Group’s overall capital risk appetite is managed with reference to the requirements of the relevant stakeholders and seeks to 
maintain sufficient, but not excessive, financial strength to support stakeholder requirements and optimise its overall debt to equity 
structure to enhance returns to shareholders, subject to the requirements set by the Group’s capital risk appetite and retain financial 
flexibility by maintaining liquidity including unutilised committed credit lines.

The primary sources of capital used by the Group are equity shareholders’ funds, preference shares, subordinated debt and 
borrowings. Alternative resources are utilised where appropriate. Targets are established in relation to regulatory solvency, ratings, 
liquidity and dividend capacity and are a key tool in managing capital in accordance with our risk appetite and the requirements of 
our various stakeholders.

The individual companies in the Group are subject to regulatory capital requirements at an individual level. In addition the Group as a 
whole is subject to the solvency requirements of the Financial Groups Directive (FGD) as implemented by the FSA. Further detail as 
to the Group’s regulatory capital surplus and that of subsidiaries is provided in the Group Finance Director’s statement. As at the 
date of issue of these financial statements the unaudited pro-forma surplus was estimated to be £2.2 billion (2010: £2.1 billion). The 
FGD position will be submitted to the FSA by 30 April 2012.

(e) Currency risk
The Group is exposed to effects of fluctuations in the prevailing foreign currency exchange rates on its financial position and cash 
flows, with currency risk where these are not effectively matched. The principal foreign currency risk arises from the fact that the 
Group’s presentation currency is pounds sterling, whereas (other than for the UK operations) the functional currencies of its principal 
operations are South African rand, US dollar, Swedish krona and euro. The Group reduces this risk through the use of currency 
swaps, currency borrowings and forward foreign exchange contracts. Such risk mitigation techniques are reflected in the currency 
analyses that follow.

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Bermuda shareholder funds and client assets are invested in US dollar denominated bonds, mutual funds, money market securities 
and cash. Where selected, Bermuda provides minimum guarantees, also denominated in US dollars. However, a significant portion 
of the underlying assets invested in by Bermuda’s clients are exposed to currencies other than the US dollar. Bermuda estimates and 
tracks this exposure on a daily basis and, depending on the hedging strategy employed, seeks to mitigate the exposure to a greater 
or lesser extent. 

The table below shows the Group’s statement of financial position by major currency at 31 December 2011.

At 31 December 2011

Assets
Mandatory reserve deposits with 

central banks

Reinsurers’ share of policyholder 

liabilities

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other assets
Derivative financial instruments – 

assets

Cash and cash equivalents

Total financial assets
Non-financial assets

Liabilities
Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidation

of funds

Borrowed funds
Other liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – 

liabilities

Total financial liabilities
Non-financial liabilities

ZAR

GBP

USD

EUR

SEK

Other

£m

Total

944

–

3

–

–

4

951

124
38,442
31,517
1,737

1,336
1,571

75,671
3,391

79,062

836
154
27,624
219

445
1,137

30,415
2,573

32,988

1
938
10,668
1,007

67
596

13,280
1,464

14,744

3
134
7,724
148

(55)
180

8,134
1,890

10,024

–
10
1,231
–

–
–

1,241
20,943

22,184

25
86
2,489
237

2
140

2,983
400

3,383

989
39,764
81,253
3,348

1,795
3,624

131,724
30,661

162,385

29,597

27,418

7,134

7,878

1,205

3,118

76,350

1,024
2,512
2,863
39,906

1,296

77,198
1,079

78,277

853
967
616
88

445

30,387
811

31,198

16
11
400
736

73

8,370
35

8,405

–
166
148
190

(59)

8,323
1,307

9,630

–
–
12
–

–

1,217
19,280

20,497

–
–
204
58

–

3,380
140

3,520

1,893
3,656
4,243
40,978

1,755

128,875
22,652

151,527

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E1: Group statement of financial position continued
(e) Currency risk continued

At 31 December 2010

Assets
Mandatory reserve deposits with 

central banks

Reinsurers’ share of policyholder

liabilities

Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Other assets
Derivative financial instruments – 

assets

Cash and cash equivalents

Total financial assets
Non-financial assets

Liabilities
Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidation

of funds

Borrowed funds
Other liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – 

liabilities

Total financial liabilities
Non-financial liabilities

ZAR

GBP

USD

EUR

SEK

Other

£m

Total

1,066

155
43,917
36,938
1,808

1,965
2,020

87,869
3,930

91,799

–

2

–

–

11

1,079

907
377
29,797
399

209
838

32,527
2,642

35,169

–
1,232
14,734
1,276

228
478

17,950
13,891

31,841

2
240
9,579
174

88
262

10,345
905

11,250

3
5,233
11,373
230

10
211

17,060
1,122

18,182

37
779
3,732
47

3
323

4,932
379

5,311

1,104
51,778
106,153
3,934

2,503
4,132

170,683
22,869

193,552

35,599

29,011

10,536

10,241

9,306

3,938

98,631

672
2,758
3,969
44,226

1,273

88,497
1,239

89,736

1,857
792
762
565

134

33,121
738

33,859

161
43
290
1,056

292

12,378
12,265

24,643

–
611
180
407

72

11,511
444

11,955

894
–
257
5,965

99

16,521
64

16,585

–
–
203
1,017

–

5,158
142

5,300

3,584
4,204
5,661
53,236

1,870

167,186
14,892

182,078

The Group reduces the risk to foreign currency fluctuations through the use of currency swaps, currency borrowings and forward 
foreign exchange contracts. There are no direct exposures to the unit linked investments and related policyholder liabilities. Taking 
these risk mitigation techniques into account a 10% appreciation in pounds sterling would result in a reduction to equity holders’ 
funds in relation to the US dollar of £584 million (2010: £711 million), £37 million in relation to the euro (2010: increase of £8 million), 
£154 million in relation to the Swedish krona (2010: £124 million) and £70 million in relation to the South African rand (2010: £192 
million).

A 10% deterioration in the value of the major currencies shown above in relation to pounds sterling (as set out in note C2) would have 
led to a reduction in Profit after tax of £118 million (2010: £90 million).

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E2: Credit risk
Overall exposure to credit risk
Credit risk refers to the risk that a counterparty will default on its contractual obligation resulting in financial loss to the Group. The 
Group has adopted a policy of only dealing with creditworthy counterparties and obtaining sufficient collateral where appropriate, as 
a means of mitigating the financial loss from defaults. The Group’s exposure and credit rating of its counterparties are continuously 
monitored and the aggregate value of transactions concluded is spread amongst approved counterparties.

The Group does not have significant credit exposure to any single counterparty or any group of counterparties having similar 
characteristics. The credit risk on liquid funds and derivative financial instruments is limited because the counterparties are banks 
with high credit ratings assigned by international credit rating agencies.

Nedbank’s lending portfolio forms the substantial part of the Group’s loans and advances, analysed further in note E3. Credit risk 
represents the most significant risk type facing Nedbank, accounting for over 63.1% of its economic capital requirements. Nedbank’s 
credit risk profile is managed in terms of its credit risk management framework, which encompasses comprehensive credit policy, 
mandate (limits) and governance structures, and is approved by the Nedbank Board.

The other major source of credit risk arises predominantly in the Group’s insurance operations’ portfolios of debt and similar 
securities along with those portfolios of debt instruments held by the banking operations. Credit risk for these portfolios is managed 
with reference to established credit rating agencies with limits placed on exposures to below investment grade holdings.

Other than the above, the Group has other limited credit risk exposures in respect of amounts due from policyholders, intermediaries 
and reinsurers. None of the life assurance operations cedes significant risk through reinsurance and any loans to policyholders are 
secured on the surrender value of the relevant policies.

The table below represents the Group’s maximum exposure to credit risk, without taking into account the value of any collateral 
obtained. The total credit exposure also includes potential exposure arising from financial guarantees given by the Group and 
undrawn loan commitments, which are not yet reflected in the Group’s statement of financial position.

Mandatory reserve deposits with central banks
Reinsurers’ share of policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities

Government and government-guaranteed securities
Other debt securities, preference shares and debentures
Short-term funds and securities treated as investments
Other
Other assets
Derivative financial instruments – assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Financial guarantees and other credit related contingent liabilities
Loan commitments and other credit related commitments
Non-current assets held for sale

£m

At  
 31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

951
989
39,764
20,049
6,476
10,909
2,536
128
3,050
1,795
3,624
3,030
5,578
10,852

89,682

1,079
1,104
51,778
28,657
9,275
15,930
3,352
100
3,844
2,503
4,132
3,915
8,330
11,750

117,092

(i) Financial collateral 
The Group takes financial collateral to support exposures in its banking and securities and lending activities. Collateral held includes cash and 
debt securities. Cash collateral is included as part of cash equivalents.

These transactions are entered into under terms and conditions that are standard industry practice to securities borrowing and lending activities. 

(ii) Non-financial collateral 
The Group takes other physical collateral to recover outstanding lending exposures in the event of the borrower being unable or unwilling to fulfil 
its obligations. This includes mortgage over property (both residential and commercial), and liens over business assets (including, but not limited 
to plant, vehicles, aircraft, inventories and trade debtors) and guarantees from parties other than the borrower. 

Should a counterparty be unable to settle its obligations, the Group takes possession of collateral as full or part settlement of such amounts. In 
general, the Group seeks to dispose of such property and other assets that are not readily convertible into cash as soon as the market for the 
relevant asset permits.

A further analysis of credit risk is provided in notes E3, E4, E6 and F5.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E3: Loans and advances
(a) Summary
The following table shows an analysis of loans and advances:

Home loans
Commercial mortgages
Properties in possession
Credit cards
Overdrafts
Policyholder loans
Other loans to clients
Preference shares and debentures
Net finance leases and instalment debtors

Gross investment
Unearned finance charges

Factoring accounts
Trade, other bills and bankers’ acceptances
Term loans
Remittances in transit
Deposits placed under reverse purchase agreements

Gross loans and advances
Provisions for impairment 

Specific provisions
Portfolio provision

Total net loans and advances

£m

At 
 31 December 
2011

At 
 31 December 
2010

11,395
7,122
49
690
1,047
256
5,238
1,429
5,664
5,918
(254)
304
3
6,206
16
1,260

18,924
8,376
64
809
1,556
249
5,332
1,994
6,603
6,976
(373)
311
14
7,304
11
1,335

40,679

52,882

(696)
(219)

(886)
(218)

39,764

51,778

Non-performing loans included above had a book value less impairment provisions of £1,096 million (2010: £1,721 million).

Of the loans and advances shown above, £12,471 million (2010: £15,865 million) is receivable within one year of the reporting date 
and is regarded as current. £27,293 million (2010: £35,913 million) is regarded as non-current based on the maturity profile of the 
assets.

Of the gross loans and advances shown above, £40,189 million (2010: £52,341 million) relates to balances held by the Group’s 
banking operations.

The table below gives an age analysis of loans and advances representing primarily the exposures of the Group’s banking 
operations.

Neither past due nor impaired
Past due but not impaired

Past due but less than 1 month
Past due, greater than 1 month but less than 3 months
Past due, greater than 3 months but less than 6 months
Past due, greater than 6 months but less than 1 year
Past due more than 1 year

Impaired loans and advances individually impaired

Gross loans and advances
Provisions for impairment 

Total net loans and advances

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£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

35,462
3,381
2,856
493
2
1
29
1,836

40,679
(915)

39,764

46,584
3,683
3,075
481
75
24
28
2,615

52,882
(1,104)

51,778

 
The neither past due nor impaired loans and advances can be further analysed by credit rating as follows:

At 31 December 2011

At 31 December 2010

Investment 
grade

Sub-
investment 
grade

Not rated

Home loans
Commercial mortgages
Credit cards
Overdrafts
Policyholder loans
Other loans to clients
Preference shares and debentures
Net finance leases and instalment debtors
Factoring accounts
Trade, other bills and bankers’ acceptances
Term loans
Remittances in transit
Deposits placed under reverse purchase 

agreements

779
2,185
111
182
192
3,620
1,210
337
–
2
3,995
7

1,257

8,019
4,412
482
671
–
1,386
202
4,125
290
1
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–

443
116
–
89
61
86
14
246
–
–
53
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Investment 
grade

Sub-
investment 
grade

Not rated

923
2,153
121
297
160
3,544
1,376
728
–
6
5,163
8

10,145
5,936
542
710
–
1,332
521
4,601
308
8
934
1

4,830
20
9
261
83
252
14
91
–
–
171
1

Total

9,241
6,713
593
942
253
5,092
1,426
4,708
290
3
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8,109
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1,268
243
5,128
1,911
5,420
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13,877

20,468

1,117

35,462

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1,307

15,786

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5,732

46,584

Collateral is held as security against certain loans and advances detailed above, with this principally consisting of cash, properties 
and letters of credit.

Movements in provisions for impairment of loans and advances are analysed as follows:

Balance at beginning of the year
Acquisitions through business combinations
Income statement charge
Recoveries of amounts previously written off
Amounts written off against the provision
Foreign exchange and other movements

Balance at end of the year 

£m

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Specific 
impairment

Portfolio 
impairment

Total 
impairment

Specific 
impairment

Portfolio 
impairment

Total 
impairment

886
(3)
463
(55)
(486)
(109)

696

218
(8)
50
–
–
(41)

219

1,104
(11)
513
(55)
(486)
(150)

915

660
–
594
(67)
(484)
183

886

172
–
21
–
–
25

218

832
–
615
(67)
(484)
208

1,104

The majority of loans and advances are in respect of Nedbank, which believes it has continued to make good progress in improving 
asset quality. In local currency terms Nedbank experienced a reduction in the impairment charge for the year driven mostly by its 
retail division, particularly in the secured portfolios that had lagged the recovery in the unsecured portfolios. Lower interest rates and 
the stabilising of job losses contributed to the retail credit loss improving significantly in the year. Nedbank further strengthened its 
provisioning by lengthening the emergence periods. The credit portfolios in Nedbank’s Corporate Banking business and Wealth 
divisions are believed to be of a high quality and credit loss ratios remained within or below the respective target levels. Impairments 
for the capital division increased in energy, mining, asset and leverage finance, infrastructure and private equity portfolios. Further 
detail on Nedbank is available at www.nedbank.co.za.

During the year under review, the Group recognised collateral of £49 million (2010: £64 million) in the statement of financial position. 
These amounts are included in the loans and advances above as properties in possession. 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E3: Loans and advances continued
(b) Finance lease and instalment debtors

Amounts receivable under finance leases
At 31 December 

Within one year
In the second to fifth years inclusive
After five years

Less: unearned finance income

Present value of minimum lease payments receivable

Minimum lease payments 
receivable

Present value of minimum 
lease payments receivable

£m

2011

816
5,094
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5,918
(254)

5,664

2010

987
5,910
79

6,976
(373)

6,603

2011

718
4,939
7

5,664
–

5,664

2010

934
5,594
75

6,603
–

6,603

The accumulated allowance for uncollectable minimum lease payments receivable is £190 million (2010: £230 million).

E4: Investments and securities

Government and government-guaranteed securities
Other debt securities, preference shares and debentures

Listed
Unlisted

Equity securities

Listed
Unlisted

Pooled investments

Listed
Unlisted

Short-term funds and securities treated as investments
Other

Total investments and securities

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

6,476
10,909
7,059
3,850
17,505
16,639
866
43,699
7,301
36,398
2,536
128

81,253

9,275
15,930
11,356
4,574
25,453
23,202
2,251
52,043
8,591
43,452
3,352
100

106,153

Investments and securities are regarded as current and non-current assets based on the intention with which the financial assets are 
held as well as their contractual maturity profile. Of the amounts shown above, £45,131 million (2010: £55,650 million) is regarded as 
current and £36,122 million (2010: £50,503 million) regarded as non-current.

(a) Debt instruments and similar securities
The following table shows an age analysis of the portfolio of debt instruments and similar securities:

Neither past due nor impaired
Past due but not impaired

Total debt instruments and similar securities

£m

At 
 31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

20,039
10

20,049

28,648
9

28,657

The following table shows an analysis of the carrying values of the Group’s portfolio of debt and similar securities according to their 
credit rating (Standard & Poor’s or equivalent), by investment grade.

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Investment grade (AAA to BBB)
Sub-investment grade (BB and lower)
Not rated

At 31 December 2010

Investment grade (AAA to BBB)
Sub-investment grade (BB and lower)
Not rated

Government 
and 
government-
related 
securities

Other debt 
securities, 
preference 
shares and 
debentures

5,395
56
1,025

6,476

6,955
176
3,778

10,909

Short-term 
funds and 
securities

926
–
1,610

2,536

Government 
and 
government-
related 
securities

Other debt 
securities, 
preference 
shares and 
debentures

7,094
–
2,181

9,275

8,429
113
7,388

15,930

Short-term  
funds and  
securities

2,162
–
1,190

3,352

£m

Total

13,276
232
6,541

20,049

£m

Total

17,691
113
10,853

28,657

Other

–
–
128

128

Other

6
–
94

100

In general, no collateral is taken in respect of the Group’s holdings of debt instruments and similar securities.

E5: Securities lending
The Group participates in securities lending where securities holdings are lent to third parties. The loaned securities are not removed 
from the Group’s consolidated statement of financial position but are retained within the relevant investment classification. Collateral 
is held in respect of the loaned securities.

The table below represents the amounts lent and the related collateral received:

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Amounts received as collateral for securities lending

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The cash collateral has been recognised in the statement of financial position with a corresponding liability to return the collateral 
included in other liabilities. Of the collateral included in the table above, £767 million (2010: £1,147 million) can be sold or repledged 
and £nil (2010: £nil) has been sold or repledged.

In addition the Group has provided £nil in cash collateral (2010: £164 million) and £114 million in debt securities collateral (2010: £nil) 
under repurchase arrangements. 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E6: Derivative financial instruments – assets and liabilities
The Group utilises derivative instruments for both hedging and non-hedging purposes. The derivative instruments become in-the-
money or out-of-the-money as a result of fluctuations in market interest rates, foreign exchange rates or asset prices relative to their 
terms. The aggregate contractual or notional amount of derivative financial instruments on hand, the extent to which instruments are 
in-the-money or out-of-the-money and, therefore, the aggregate fair values of derivative financial assets and liabilities can fluctuate 
significantly from time to time.

The following tables provide a detailed breakdown of the Group’s derivative financial instruments outstanding at year end. These 
instruments allow the Group and its customers to transfer, modify or reduce their credit, equity market, foreign exchange and interest 
rate risks.

The Group undertakes transactions involving derivative financial instruments with other financial institutions. Management has 
established limits commensurate with the credit quality of the institutions with which it deals, and manages the resulting exposures 
such that a default by any individual counterparty is unlikely to have a materially adverse impact on the Group.

£m

2010

160
389
857
12
452

Derivative financial instruments

Assets

Liabilities

At 31 December

Equity derivatives
Exchange rate contracts
Interest rate contracts
Credit derivatives
Other derivatives

Total

2011

37
281
1,070
19
388

1,795

2010

293
592
969
173
476

2011

46
293
977
19
420

2,503

1,755

1,870

The contractual maturities of the derivative liabilities held are as follows:

Derivative financial liabilities

At 31 December 2011

At 31 December 2010

Carrying 
amount

Less than 3 
months

More than 3 
months less 
than 1 year

Between 1 
and 5 years

More than 5 
years

No 
contractual 
maturity date

1,755

1,870

451

570

326

278

515

541

675

538

–

–

£m

Total

1,967

1,927

In accordance with the Group’s hedging strategy the Group has entered into contracts pre and post year end to mitigate the foreign 
exchange risks attaching to the potential receipt, and subsequent distribution, of proceeds related to the sale of the Nordic 
businesses. The net cost of those contracts purchased in 2011 was recognised in the income statement for the year ended 31 
December 2011, with the market value not significant at the year end. On completion of the sale any profits and losses in relation to 
these contracts will be offset by currency losses or gains on the underlying assets.

E7: Hedge accounting
Net investment hedges
The Group uses a combination of currency swaps, forward foreign exchange contracts and debt raised in the currency of the 
exposure to mitigate the translation effect of holding overseas companies. The following table summarises the Group’s open 
positions with respect to financial instruments utilised for net investment hedging purposes. There was no ineffectiveness in respect 
of the net investment hedges during the financial year (2010: £nil).

Open positions
Forward contracts
Currency swaps
Debt*

At 31 December 2011

At 31 December 2010

USD

ZAR

SEK

USD

ZAR

SEK

£m

–
62
–

62

100
–
–

100

–
479
–

479

–
313
32

345

164
–
10

174

–
391
–

391

* 2010 excluded $750 million and €500 million of financial instruments accounted as non-controlling interests or as equity.

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Fair value of financial instruments designated as net investment hedges at the reporting date
ZAR forward foreign exchange contracts
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£300 million cross currency swap
£500 million cross currency swap
€750 million cross currency swap
€200 million cross currency swap

£m

At  
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At 
 31 December 
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(1)
(1)
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–
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–

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The South African rand forwards are designated as hedges against the foreign currency risk in respect of the Group’s investment in 
its South African operations. The US dollar forwards are designated as hedges against the foreign currency risk in respect of the 
Group’s investment in its US operations. 

The £500 million cross currency swap is used to hedge Swedish krona currency risk on Swedish krona based assets in the Group’s 
net investment in Nordic. The pounds sterling to US dollar (£82 million to $97 million) leg of the €200 million cross currency swap is 
used to hedge US dollar currency risk on the US dollar based assets in the Group’s net investment in US operations.

E8: Policyholder liabilities

Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Insurance contracts
Investment contracts

Unit-linked investment contracts and similar  
  contracts
Other investment contracts
Discretionary participating investment contracts

Outstanding claims

General insurance liabilities
Claims incurred but not reported
Unearned premiums
Outstanding claims

At 31 December 2011 

At 31 December 2010

Gross

Reinsurance

Net

Gross

Reinsurance

£m

Net

15,587

(94)

15,493

19,177

(141)

19,036

52,081
979
7,475
228

76,350

47
98
180

325

(781)
–
–
(16)

(891)

(4)
(47)
(47)

(98)

51,300
979
7,475
212

75,459

43
51
133

227

69,538
1,145
8,249
522

98,631

61
109
227

397

(821)
–
–
(20)

(982)

(12)
(51)
(59)

(122)

(1,104)

68,717
1,145
8,249
502

97,649

49
58
168

275

97,924

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75,686

99,028

Of the £989 million (2010: £1,104 million) included in reinsurer’s share of life assurance policyholder and general insurance liabilities is 
an amount of £925 million (2010: £1,051 million) which is classified as current, the remainder being non-current.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E8: Policyholder liabilities continued
Movements in the amounts outstanding in respect of life assurance policyholder liabilities, other than outstanding claims, are set out 
below.

(a) Insurance contracts

Balance at beginning of the year
Income
Premium income
Investment income
Other income
Expenses
Claims and policy benefits
Operating expenses
Currency translation (gain)/loss
Other charges and transfers
Taxation
Transfer to operating profit
Transfer to non-current liabilities held for 

sale

Balance at end of the year

At 31 December 2011 

At 31 December 2010

Gross

Reinsurance

Net

Gross

Reinsurance

£m

Net

19,177

(141)

19,036

27,549

(539)

27,010

2,001
682
3

(2,507)
(516)
(2,620)
(242)
(2)
(342)

(47)

15,587

(81)
–
–

69
–
10
40
–
8

1

(94)

1,920
682
3

(2,438)
(516)
(2,610)
(202)
(2)
(334)

(46)

15,493

1,999
1,989
3

(2,268)
(472)
2,059
(601)
(1)
(293)

(10,787)

19,177

(b) Unit-linked investment contracts and similar contracts, and other investment contracts

Balance at beginning of the year
New contributions received
Maturities
Withdrawals and surrenders
Fair value movements
Foreign exchange and other movements
Transfer to non-current liabilities held for sale

Balance at end of the year

(c) Discretionary participating investment contracts

Balance at beginning of the year
Income
Premium income
Investment income
Currency translation (gains)/losses

Expenses
Claims and policy benefits
Operating expenses
Other charges and transfers
Taxation

Transfer to operating profit

Balance at end of the year

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(67)
–
–

70
–
(6)
(36)
–
(12)

449

(141)

1,932
1,989
3

(2,198)
(472)
2,053
(637)
(1)
(305)

(10,338)

19,036

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

70,683
10,086
(805)
(7,942)
(3,412)
(3,775)
(11,775)

53,060

59,231
10,250
(701)
(6,788)
6,619
2,860
(788)

70,683

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

8,249

6,639

975
459
(1,468)

(34)

(996)
(96)
414
(6)

(684)

(56)

7,475

855
895
1,107

2,857

(1,024)
(85)
(61)
(7)

(1,177)

(70)

8,249

(d) Contractual maturity analysis
The table below is a maturity analysis of liability cash flows based on contractual maturity dates for investment contract liabilities and 
discretionary participating financial instruments, and expected claim dates for insurance contracts.

The Group acknowledges that for general insurance the unearned premium provision, which will be recognised as earned premium 
in the future, will most likely not lead to claim cash outflows equal to this provision. The Group has however adopted a conservative 
approach in estimating future cash outflows associated with unearned premiums, by assuming a 100% combined ratio.

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Insurance contracts
Investment contracts

Unit-linked investment contracts and similar  
  contracts
Other investment contracts
Discretionary participating investment contracts

Outstanding claims

General insurance liabilities
Claims incurred but not reported
Unearned premium
Outstanding claims

Undiscounted cash flows

Carrying 
amount

Less than  
3 months

More than  
 3 months 
less than  
1 year

Between  

1 and 5 years

More than  
 5 years

Total

£m

15,587

1,418

1,674

7,494

21,707

32,293

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325

48,063
681
6,155
202

56,519

20
51
57

128

296
73
–
2

2,045

16
46
54

116

1,110
217
–
4

8,825

11
1
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81

2,395
55
–
18

24,175

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–
–

–

51,864
1,026
6,155
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56,647

2,161

8,906

24,175

91,889

At 31 December 2010

Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Insurance contracts
Investment contracts

Unit-linked investment contracts and similar 
  contracts
Other investment contracts
Discretionary participating investment contracts

Outstanding claims

General insurance liabilities
Claims incurred but not reported
Unearned premium
Outstanding claims

Carrying 
amount

Less than  
3 months

Undiscounted cash flows

More than  
3 months 
 less than  
1 year

Between  

1 and 5 years

More than  
 5 years

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19,177

1,572

1,744

9,271

24,658

37,245

69,538
1,145
8,249
522

98,631

61
109
227

397

59,173
740
7,415
406

69,306

26
56
88

170

888
77
–
29

2,738

30
51
100

181

2,227
264
–
57

11,819

5
2
39

46

6,790
236
–
31

69,078
1,317
7,415
523

31,715

115,578

–
–
–

–

61
109
227

397

Total policyholder liabilities

99,028

69,476

2,919

11,865

31,715

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E8: Policyholder liabilities continued
(e) Insurance risk
The Group assumes insurance risk by issuing insurance contracts, under which the Group agrees to compensate the policyholder or other 
beneficiary if a specified uncertain future event (the insured event) affecting the policyholder occurs. Insurance risk includes mortality and 
morbidity risk in the case of life assurance or risk of loss (from fire, accident, or other source) in the case of general insurance.

Insurance risk arises through exposure to unfavourable claims experience on life assurance, critical illness and other protection 
business and exposure to unfavourable operating experience in respect of factors such as persistency levels and management 
expenses. Uncertainty in persistency, expenses and mortality & morbidity claim rates, relative to the actuarial assumptions made in 
the pricing process, may prevent the firm from achieving its profit objectives.

For accounting purposes insurance risk is defined as risk other than financial risk. Contracts issued by the Group may include both 
insurance and financial risk; contracts with significant insurance risk are classified as insurance contracts, while contracts with no or 
insignificant insurance risk are classified as investment contracts.

The Group has developed a risk policy which sets out the practices which are used to manage insurance risk and the management 
information and stress testing requirements. The policy is cascaded to all entities across the Group who each have their own risk 
policy suite aligned to the Group. As well as management of persistency, expense and claims experience, the risk policy sets 
requirements and standards on matters such as underwriting and claims management practices, and the use of reinsurance to 
mitigate insurance risk.

The insurance risk profile and experience is closely monitored to ensure that the exposure remains acceptable.

The financial impact of insurance risk events is examined through stress tests carried out within the MCEV and IFRS sensitivities, ICA 
and Economic Capital assessment.

Mortality and morbidity 
Mortality and morbidity risk is the risk that death, critical illness and disability claims are higher than expected within the operations’ 
pricing assumptions. Possible causes are unexpected epidemics of new diseases and widespread changes in lifestyle such as 
eating, smoking and exercise habits. Higher than expected levels of claims will cause emerging profit to be lower than expected. For 
contracts where survival is the insured risk, the most significant factor is continued improvement in medical science and social 
conditions that increase longevity. 

For unit-linked contracts a risk charge is applied to meet the expected cost of the insured benefit (in excess of the unit value). This 
risk charge can be altered in the event of significant changes in the expectation for future claims experience, subject to ‘Treating 
Customers Fairly’ principles.

The operations manage mortality risks through its underwriting policy and external reinsurance arrangements where its policy is to 
retain certain types of insurance risks within specified maximum single event loss limits. Exposures above accepted limits are 
transferred to reinsurance counterparties.

Persistency
Persistency risk is the risk that a policyholder surrenders, transfers or ceases premium payments for their contracts in a volume that 
has not been expected within the pricing assumptions thereby leading to a reduction in financial profit and an impact on liquidity.

Some insurance contracts can be surrendered before maturity for a cash surrender value.

In order to limit this risk to an acceptable level, charging and commission structures are designed to limit the risk of direct financial 
loss on surrender.

Persistency statistics are monitored monthly. Actions may be triggered as a result of higher than expected lapse or withdrawal rates 
and significant emerging trends. A detailed persistency analysis at a product level is carried out on an annual basis. 

In the short-term, profit is not materially impacted by changes in persistency experience that is reasonably foreseeable.

Expenses 
Expense risk is the risk that actual expenses exceed expense levels assumed in product pricing. This may result in emerging profit 
falling below the Group’s profit objectives.

Expense levels are monitored quarterly against budgets and forecasts. An activity based costing process is used to allocate costs 
relating to processes and activities to individual product lines.

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Some products’ structures include maintenance charges. These charges are reviewed annually in light of changes in maintenance 
expense levels. This review may result in changes in charge levels, subject to ‘Treating Customers Fairly’ principles. 

Tax
Tax risk is the risk that insufficient tax is collected from the policyholders because the projected taxation basis for basic life 
assurance business is incorrect resulting in contracts being incorrectly priced.

Tax risk also represents potential changes in the interpretation or application of prevailing tax legislation as paid by either 
policyholders or shareholders, where the detrimental impact is reduced profitability or additional shareholder tax burdens. The 
taxation position of the operations is projected annually and tax changes will result in changes to new business pricing models as 
part of the annual control cycle. High risk issues and emerging trends are reported internally on a quarterly basis.

Other information on insurance risk
More information about (i) risk management objectives and policies for mitigating insurance risk, (ii) terms and conditions of long-term 
insurance businesses, (iii) management of insurance risks – life assurance, (iv) guarantees and options – life assurance , and (v) 
general insurance risk, can be found at www.oldmutual.com. 

(f) Sensitivity analysis – life assurance
Changes in key assumptions used to value insurance contracts would result in increases or decreases to the insurance contract 
provisions recorded, with impact on profit/(loss) and/or shareholders’ equity. The effect of a change in assumption is mitigated by the 
following factors:

 ■ Offset (partial or full) to the bonus stabilisation reserve in the case of smoothed bonus products in South Africa; and
 ■ Offset (partial or full) through DAC amortisation in the case of the Bermuda business.

The net increase or decrease to insurance contract provisions recorded at 31 December 2011 has been estimated as follows:

Assumption

Mortality and morbidity rates – assurance
Mortality rates – annuities
Discontinuance rates
Expenses (maintenance)

%

£m

£m

£m

Change

Emerging 
Markets

Wealth 
Management

Bermuda 

10
(10)
10
10

294
52
(11)
66

3
–
(3)
3

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10
(1)

Emerging Markets
The changes in insurance contract liabilities shown are calculated using the specified increase or decrease to the rates, with no 
change in charges paid by policyholders.

The insurance contract liabilities recorded for the South African business are also impacted by the valuation discount rate assumed. 
Lowering this rate by 1% would result in a net increase to the insurance contract liabilities, and decrease to profit, of £113 million 
(2010: £98 million).

The valuation interest rate sensitivity reflects a change in the valuation interest rates without any corresponding change in investment 
returns or in the expense inflation rate. It should be noted that where the assets and liabilities of a product are closely matched 
(e.g. non-profit annuity business), the net effect has been shown since the assets and liabilities move in parallel.

Wealth Management
The changes in insurance contract liabilities shown are calculated independently using the specified increase or decrease to the 
rates, with no change in premiums paid by policyholders. The assumption changes have no impact on the linked business within 
Skandia UK.

Whole of Life is the main product group affected by the lapse assumption change. This is because the policies have the longest 
duration and represent close to 85% of the reserve. The main product groups impacted by the expense, mortality and morbidity 
sensitivities are Whole of Life and Accelerated Critical Illness.

In the Wealth Management business, non-linked liabilities are fairly well matched by gilts so that the net impact of a valuation interest 
rate change, taking asset and liability movement into account, is negligible.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E8: Policyholder liabilities continued
Bermuda
The insurance contract liabilities recorded for the Bermuda business are also impacted by the valuation discount rate assumed. Lowering 
this rate by 1% would result in a net increase to the insurance contract liabilities, and decrease to profit, of £55 million (2010: £71 million).

Other assumption changes on Bermuda business have counterbalancing effects. Lapses and partial withdrawals have the largest 
impact where increased activity reduces future fees and hence impact DAC negatively. However, such activity helps the guarantee 
portion of the business since less death and living benefit exposure is expected in the future. Thus, anti-selective behaviour (eg, 
business with little or no guarantees redeeming at a faster rate) presents the bigger challenge but it is accounted for in both the DAC 
and guarantee reserve calculations and conservation efforts are underway to retain the less risky business. Mortality plays a much 
smaller part in Bermuda since all the business is accumulation/savings type business. Increased deaths do accelerate payment of 
guaranteed minimum death benefits but there is a comparable release of reserve on the maturity guarantee providing an offset 
(about 85% of the variable annuity business has both death/living benefits).

(g) Sensitivity analysis – general insurance
An increase of 10% in the average cost of claims would require the recognition of an additional loss of £36 million net of reinsurance. 
Similarly, an increase of 10% in the ultimate number of claims would result in an additional loss of £36 million net of reinsurance. 

The majority of the Group’s general insurance contracts are classified as ‘short-tailed’, meaning that any claim is settled within a year 
after the loss date. This contrasts with the ‘long-tailed’ classes where the claims costs take longer to materialise and settle. The 
Group’s long-tailed business is generally limited to personal accident, third party motor liability and some engineering classes. In total 
the long-tail business comprises less than 5% of an average year’s claim costs.

(h) Reinsurance assets – credit risk
None of the Group’s reinsurance assets are either past due or impaired. Of the reinsurance assets shown in the statement of 
financial position all are considered investment grade with the exception of £104 million of unrated exposures (2010: £144 million). 
Collateral is not taken against reinsurance assets or deposits held with reinsurers other than in limited circumstances.

£m

At  
31 December 
2010 
Group

1,736
752
982
–
2
112

2,356

4,204

Nedbank

1,186
720
466
–
–
112

1,158

2,456

Group 
excluding 
Nedbank

Notes

Nedbank

At  
31 December 
2011  

Group

Group 
excluding 
Nedbank

1,355
844
511
–
–
77

841

2,273

1,862
844
1,018
–
–
77

1,717

3,656

E9(a)

E9(b)

E9(c)

E9(d)

E9(e)

F11(b) (ii)

F10(b)

F10(b)

507
–
507
–
–
–

876

1,383

458

338

350

2,529

2,666

550
32
516
–
2
–

1,198

1,748

458

338

350

2,894

3,045

E9: Borrowed funds

Senior debt securities and term 

loans
Floating rate notes
Fixed rate notes
Revolving credit facility
Term loan and other loans
Mortgage backed securities
Subordinated debt securities (net of

Group holdings)

Borrowed funds

Other issues treated as equity for 

accounting purposes
US$750 million cumulative 
preference securities 

€500 million perpetual preferred 

callable securities 

£350 million perpetual preferred 

callable securities

Total: Book value

Nominal value of the above

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The table below is a maturity analysis of liability cash flows based on contractual maturity dates for borrowed funds. Maturity analysis 
is undiscounted and based on year end exchange rates.

Less than 1 year
Greater than 1 year and less than 5 years
Greater than 5 years

Total

Senior notes
(a) Floating rate notes

Group 
excluding 
Nedbank

272
898
998

2,168

At 
 31 December 
2011  

Group

784
2,834
1,554

5,172

Nedbank

512
1,936
556

3,004

Group 
excluding 
Nedbank

498
921
880

2,299

Nedbank

323
2,164
722

3,209

£m

At 
 31 December 
 2010  
Group

821
3,085
1,602

5,508

£m

Nedbank
R1,690 million unsecured senior debt at 3 month JIBAR + 1.5%
R1,044 million unsecured senior debt at 3 month JIBAR + 2.20%
R1,750 million unsecured senior debt inflation linked (3.9% real yield)
R98 million unsecured senior debt inflation linked (3.8% real yield)
R1,552 million unsecured senior debt at 3 month JIBAR + 1.48%
R1,027 million unsecured senior debt at 3 month JIBAR + 1.75%
R80 million unsecured senior debt JIBAR + 2.15%
R837 million unsecured senior debt at 3 month JIBAR + 1.05%
R677 million unsecured senior debt at 3 month JIBAR + 1.25%
R500 million unsecured senior debt at 3 month JIBAR + 1%
R1,075 million unsecured senior debt at 3 month JIBAR + 0.94% 

Group excluding Nedbank
US$50 million at 3 month LIBOR plus 0.50%

Total floating rate notes

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
 31 December 
2010

119
84
158
9
125
83
6
79
54
40
87

844

–

–

844

166
102
180
10
153
101
8
–
–
–
–

720

32

32

752

All floating rate notes are non-qualifying for the purposes of regulatory tiers of capital.

(b) Fixed rate notes

Nedbank
R130 million unsecured senior debt at zero coupon
R3,244 million unsecured senior debt at 10.55%
R762 million unsecured senior debt at 11.39%
R478 million unsecured senior debt at R157 + 1.75%
R450 million unsecured senior debt at R206 + 1.28%
R1,137 million unsecured senior debt at R157 + 1.5%

Group excluding Nedbank
£500 million euro bond at 7.125%
US$16.5 million secured senior debt at 5.23%
R100 million floating rate note repayable February 2011 (3 months ZAR-JIBAR-SAFEX 

plus 4.5%)

Total fixed rate notes

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

14
265
63
39
37
93

511

496
11

–

507

1,018

16
326
77
47
–
–

466

496
11

9

516

982

Maturity date

September 2012
September 2015
March 2013
March 2013
April 2013
April 2015
April 2020
March 2014
March 2016
April 2014
October 2014

Repaid

£m

Maturity date

October 2024
September 2015
September 2019
April 2015
March 2014
March 2016

October 2016
August 2014

Repaid

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

All fixed rate notes are non-qualifying for the purposes of regulatory tiers of capital.

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E9: Borrowed funds continued
(c) Revolving credit facilities and irrevocable letters of credit
In April 2011 the Group signed a new £1,200 million five-year multi-currency revolving credit facility, replacing the £1,232 million 
facility due to mature in September 2012. 

At 31 December 2011 £160 million (2010: £499 million) of this facility was utilised, £nil (2010: £nil) in the form of drawn debt and £160 
million (2010: £499 million) in the form of irrevocable letters of credit.

The Group had a SEK1,500 million revolving credit facility with a maturity date of 1 July 2011 which was subsequently extended on 
similar terms to 1 July 2012 and revised to SEK1,000 million. At 31 December 2011 this facility was undrawn (2010: undrawn). On 22 
February 2012 the facility was terminated.

(d) Mortgage backed securities – Nedbank 

Nedbank
R291 million notes (class A1) at 11.467%
R1.4 billion notes (class A2A) at 11.817%
R98 million notes (class B note) at 12.067%
R76 million notes (class C note) at 13.317%

Total mortgage backed securities

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

–
67
6
4

77

4
96
7
5

112

£m

Tier

Maturity date

Tier 2
Tier 2
Tier 2
Tier 2

Repaid
November 2039
November 2039
November 2039

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(e) Subordinated debt securities (net of Group holdings)

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

Nedbank
R1.5 billion (7.85%)
R1.8 billion (9.84%)
R650 million (9.03%)
R1.7 billion (8.9%)
R2.0 billion (3 month JIBAR plus 

0.47%)

R500 million (3 month JIBAR plus 

0.45%)

R1.0 billion (10.54%)
R500 million (3 month JIBAR plus 

0.70%)

R120 million (10.38%)
R487 million (15.05%)
R1,265 million (JIBAR plus 4.75%)
R300 million (JIBAR + 2.5%)
US$100 million (3 month USD LIBOR)

Less: banking subordinated debt 
securities held by other Group 
companies

Banking subordinated debt 
securities (net of Group holdings)
Group excluding Nedbank
R3.0 billion (8.9% to October 2015, 

3 month JIBAR plus 1.59% 
thereafter)

£300 million (5.0%)
€200 million (2010: €750 million) (4.5%

to January 2012 and 6 month 
EURIBOR plus 0.96% thereafter)*

£500 million (8.0%)**

–
153
54
144

161

40
87

40
10
42
102
12
65

910

(69)

841

239
–

166
471

876

Total subordinated debt securities

1,717

148
186
67
171

198

49
105

49
12
51
125
15
65

1,241

(83)

1,158

293
296

609
–

1,198

2,356

£m

Tier

First call date

Maturity date

Tier 2
Tier 2
Tier 2
Tier 2

Tier 2

Tier 2
Tier 2

–
September 2013
February 2012
February 2014

Repaid
September 2018
February 2017
February 2019

July 2017

July 2022

August 2012
September 2015

August 2017
September 2020

Tier 2
Tier 2
Tier 2
Non-core Tier 1
Non-core Tier 1
Tier 2 Secondary

December 2012
December 2012 
November 2018
November 2018
December 2013
March 2017

December 2017
December 2017
November 2018
November 2018
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March 2022

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18 January 2012 the remaining €200 million was repaid. 

**  The principal and coupon on the bonds were swapped into floating rate of quarterly STIBOR plus 5.46%. The currency swaps have a five year mandatory 

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

E: Financial assets and liabilities continued
E10: Amounts owed to bank depositors

Year ended 31 December 2011

Amounts owed to bank depositors

Current accounts
Savings deposits
Other deposits and loan accounts
Negotiable certificates of deposit

Deposits received under repurchase agreements

Amounts owed to bank depositors

Carrying 
amount

Less than  
3 months

More than 
 3 months 
less than  
1 year

Between  

1 and 5 years

More than 
 5 years

4,117
1,265
26,613
7,787
1,196

40,978

4,117
1,265
20,897
2,553
1,196

30,028

–
–
3,242
4,186
–

7,428

–
–
2,370
1,610
–

3,980

–
–
299
1
–

300

Year ended 31 December 2010

Amounts owed to bank depositors

Current accounts
Savings deposits
Other deposits and loan accounts
Negotiable certificates of deposit

Deposits received under repurchase agreements

Amounts owed to bank depositors

Carrying 
amount

Less than 
 3 months

More than  
 3 months less 
than 1 year

Between 
 1 and 5 years

More than  
5 years

8,016
3,731
29,352
10,758
1,379

53,236

8,016
3,731
23,484
2,567
1,379

39,177

–
–
4,313
6,553
–

10,866

–
–
1,863
2,337
–

4,200

–
–
216
2
–

218

£m

Total

4,117
1,265
26,808
8,350
1,196

41,736

£m

Total

8,016
3,731
29,876
11,459
1,379

54,461

E11: Liquidity
Liquidity risk is the risk that cash may not be available to pay obligations when due at a reasonable cost. Ultimate responsibility for 
liquidity risk management rests with the Board of Directors, which has built an appropriate liquidity risk management framework for 
the management of the Group’s short, medium and long-term funding and liquidity management requirements. The Group manages 
liquidity by maintaining adequate reserves, banking facilities and continuously monitoring forecast and actual cash flows and 
matching the maturity profiles of financial assets and liabilities. Individual businesses separately maintain and manage their local 
liquidity requirements according to their business needs, within the overall liquidity framework established by Old Mutual plc.

The Group continues to meet Group and individual entity capital requirements, and day-to-day liquidity needs, through the Group’s 
available credit facilities. Given the nature of the Group’s investments and securities, generally speaking, liquid resources are readily 
available, as the Group holds large portfolios of highly marketable securities, for example equities, listed bonds, actively traded 
pooled investments and cash and cash equivalents. Whilst most of the Group’s policyholder and banking liabilities are generally 
repayable on demand, the Group’s expectation is that policyholders and banking depositors will only require funds on an ongoing 
basis. Cash resources and other liquid assets are maintained in the event of a need for additional liquidity. Information on the nature 
of the investments and securities held is given in section E4. The Group’s existing revolving credit facility of £1.20 billion (2010: £1.23 
billion) does not mature until April 2016 (2010: September 2012). Details, together with information on the Group’s borrowed funds, 
are given in section E9.

The key information reviewed by the Group’s executive directors and Executive Committee, together with the Group’s Capital 
Management Committee, is a detailed management report on the Group’s and holding company’s current and planned capital and 
liquidity position together with summary information on the current and planned liquidity positions of the Group’s operating 
segments. Forecasts are updated regularly based on new information received, and as part of the Group’s annual business planning 
cycle. The Group and holding company’s liquidity and capital position and forecast are presented to the Old Mutual plc Board of 
directors on a regular basis. 

Group operating segments are required, both in terms of their local requirements and in accordance with direction from the holding 
company, to establish their own processes for managing their liquidity and capital needs and these are subject to review by their 
local oversight functions, with representation from the Group.

Further information on liquidity and holding company cash flow is contained in other sections of this annual report, for example the 
business review and Group Finance Director’s statement.

The Group does not have material liquidity exposure to special purpose entities or investment funds.

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The contractual maturities of the Group’s financial liabilities are set out in the appropriate notes to the financial statements.

F: Other statement of financial position notes
F1: Goodwill and other intangible assets

Present value of 
acquired in- 
force business 
development  
costs

Goodwill

Software 
development 
costs

Other 
 intangible  
assets

Total

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

£m

3,286

3,241

2,704

3,029

766

649

896

880

7,652

7,799

At 31 December

Cost
Balance at beginning of the year
Acquisitions through business 

combinations

Additions
Foreign exchange and other movements
Disposals or retirements
Transfer to non-current assets held for sale

–
–
(144)
–
(260)

4
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143
(29)
(73)

–
–
(44)
–
(1,184)

–
–
10
–
(335)

Balance at end of the year

2,882

3,286

1,476

2,704

Amortisation and impairment losses
Balance at beginning of the year
Amortisation charge for the year
Impairment losses
Foreign exchange and other movements
Disposals or retirements
Transfer to non-current assets held for sale

Accumulated amortisation and 

(455)
–
(264)
31
–
23

(512)
–
(1)
(15)
–
73

(1,297)
(138)
–
28
–
603

(1,380)
(214)
–
27
–
270

–
86
(119)
(9)
(25)

699

(523)
(64)
–
72
2
21

–
78
81
(2)
(40)

766

(427)
(61)
(19)
(56)
2
38

1
8
(12)
–
(313)

580

(412)
(88)
–
20
–
162

1
–
15
–
–

1
94
(319)
(9)
(1,782)

5
78
249
(31)
(448)

896

5,637

7,652

(321)
(83)
–
(8)
–
–

(2,687)
(290)
(264)
151
2
809

(2,640)
(358)
(20)
(52)
2
381

impairment losses at end of the year

(665)

(455)

(804)

(1,297)

(492)

(523)

(318)

(412)

(2,279)

(2,687)

Carrying amount
Balance at beginning of the year

Balance at end of the year

2,831

2,217

2,729

2,831

1,407

672

1,649

1,407

243

207

222

243

484

262

559

484

4,965

3,358

5,159

4,965

The present value of acquired in-force business at the year end of £672 million (2010: £1,407 million, of which £568 million was in 
respect of Nordic operations) relates to the Skandia business acquired during 2006 which is due to be amortised over a further 9 to 
14 years.

Of other intangible assets, £175 million (2010: £280 million) relates to distribution channels and £37 million (2010: £136 million) brands 
associated with the Skandia business. The remaining periods over which these are being amortised are 4 years and 9 years 
respectively.

Acquisitions through business combinations comprises £1 million (2010: £1 million) in respect of acquisitions by the Group’s US 
Asset Management business and £nil (2010: £4 million) relating to various other small acquisitions.

Allocation of goodwill to cash generating units (CGUs)
The carrying amount of goodwill accords with the operating segmentation shown in note B, and primarily relates to the Long-Term 
Savings (principally the CGUs of Emerging Markets, Retail Europe and Wealth Management), together with Nedbank and US Asset 
Management. The Nordic business unit has been classified as held for sale for the current year as detailed in note A2.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

F: Other statement of financial position notes continued
F1: Goodwill and other intangible assets continued
An analysis of goodwill by CGU is set out below.

Emerging Markets
Retail Europe
Wealth Management

Long-Term Savings
Nedbank
US Asset Management
Other
Nordic

Goodwill, net of impairment losses

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

90
192
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938
374
881
24
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2,217

101
198
656

955
453
1,155
25
243

2,831

Annual impairment testing of goodwill
In accordance with the requirements of IAS 36 ‘Impairment of Assets’, goodwill is tested annually for impairment for each CGU, by 
comparing the carrying amount of each CGU to its recoverable amount, being the higher of that CGU’s value-in-use or fair value less 
costs to sell. An impairment charge is recognised when the recoverable amount is less than the carrying value. 

Long-Term Savings
The CGUs within Long-Term Savings generate revenues through their life assurance and asset management businesses. 

The value-in-use calculations for the life assurance operations are determined using the reported embedded value methodology plus 
a discounted cash flow calculation for the value of new business. The value of new business represents the present value of future 
profits from expected new business. Embedded value represents the shareholders’ interest in the life assurance business and is 
calculated in accordance with Market Consistent Embedded Value principles. The methodology and significant assumptions 
underlying the determination of embedded value are disclosed in the supplementary information shown on pages 248 to 261.  
The differences between the key assumptions applied in the current year and in the prior year are disclosed on pages 264 to 277. 

The cash flows attributable to the value of new business are determined with reference to the latest approved three-year business 
plans. Projections beyond the plan period are extrapolated using an inflation based growth assumption.

The value-in-use calculations for the asset management operations are similarly determined based on discounted cash flow models 
derived from the latest approved three-year business plans. An additional two years projections beyond the plan period are 
extrapolated using inflation based growth rates. 

The cash flows are discounted at economic profit rates applicable to each individual CGU. The key assumptions used in the 
value-in-use calculations for the Emerging Markets, Retail Europe and Wealth Management CGUs are as follows:

 ■ The growth rate – The rate used is an inflation based growth assumption, which varies by CGU and is based on external market factors 
particular to that CGU. Emerging Markets applied the growth rate of 3.4% and 4.2% respectively (2010: nil) to both its life assurance 
business and asset management business in Mexico and Columbia. Retail Europe, which incorporates a number of European countries, 
applied a weighted average calculation to determine the growth rate of 2.7% (2010: 2.8%) applied to its life assurance business and of 
2.0% (2010: 1.8%) for its asset management business. Wealth Management applied 5.2% (2010: 3.7%) to both its life assurance 
business and asset management business in the UK, 3.4% (2010: 1.8%) in Italy and 2.3% (2010: 1.7%) in France.

 ■ The discount rate – The applied rate used the relevant 10-year government bond rate as a starting point, which was adjusted for 
an equity market risk premium and other relevant risk adjustments, which were determined using market valuation models and 
other observable references. Rates applied were 13.1% (2010: 13.6%) for Emerging Markets, 11.7% (2010: 14.5%) for Retail Europe 
and 12.7% (2010: 15.8%) for Wealth Management.

The directors are satisfied that any reasonable change in the assumptions would not cause the recoverable amounts of the Emerging 
Markets, Retail Europe and Wealth Management CGUs to fall below their carrying amounts.

Nedbank 
The impairment test in respect of the Nedbank CGU has been performed by comparing the CGU’s carrying amount to its value-in-
use. Value-in-use has been determined using a discounted cash flow methodology. The key assumptions used in the value-in-use 
calculation are the discount rate and growth rate, which are based on market factors relevant to that CGU. The discount rate applied 
is approximately 12.7% (2010: 12.9%). A 5% growth rate was applied to extrapolate cash flows for an additional two years beyond the 
three-year business plan period. A terminal value, using the same growth rate, is added for the value of cash flows beyond five years.

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There was no impairment charge recognised for the Nedbank CGU in the current financial year (2010: £nil). The directors are 
satisfied that a reasonable change in assumptions would not cause the recoverable amount of the goodwill to fall below the carrying 
amount.

US Asset Management
The impairment test in respect of the US Asset Management CGU has been performed by comparing the CGU’s carrying amount to its 
value-in-use determined using a discounted cash flow methodology. Key assumptions used in the value-in-use calculations include those that 
support the underlying business plans, the long-term growth rate and risk adjusted discount rate. Further detail is provided in note A3.

Based on the expected impact from the adverse outlook for US nominal GDP growth and net cash outflows experienced by USAM 
in 2011 the long-term growth rate was reduced for the purposes of the 2011 impairment test. As a result of the change in the growth 
rate assumptions and the reduction in near term client cash flows, an impairment charge has been recognised to reflect the 
reduction in value-in-use for USAM with a charge of £264 million being recognised in the year (2010: £nil).

Segmental analysis of goodwill and intangibles
The following table shows a segmental analysis of the carrying amounts of goodwill and other intangible assets, together with 
amortisation and impairment charges, by operating segment:

Goodwill and other intangible assets by segment

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Wealth Management

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US Asset Management
Nordic
Other

Total

Goodwill and  
intangible assets*

Amortisation

Impairment loss

2011

1,860
104
474
1,282
557
904
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37

3,358

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120
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1,463
637
1,181
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2011

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157
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143
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358

2011

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–
–
–
264
–
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£m

2010

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19
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Year ended 31 December

Gross carrying amount
Balance at beginning of the year
Additions
Additions from business combinations
Increase arising from revaluation
Disposals
Foreign exchange and other movements
Transfer to non-current assets held for sale

Balance at end of the year

Accumulated depreciation and 

impairment losses

Balance at beginning of the year
Depreciation charge for the year
Disposals
Foreign exchange and other movements

Transfer to non-current assets held for sale

Balance at end of the year

Carrying amount
Balance at beginning of the year

Balance at end of the year

Land

Buildings

Plant and equipment

Total

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

111
15
7
8
(1)
(25)
–

115

–
–
–
–

–

–

86
6
–
8
–
11
–

111

–
–
–
–

–

–

111

115

86

111

685
23
34
31
(19)
(150)
–

604

(50)
(12)
19
12

–

(31)

635

573

558
31
–
18
(1)
85
(6)

685

(37)
(16)
–
3

–

(50)

521

635

865
148
8
–
(133)
(132)
(20)

736

(596)
(95)
91
91

10

(499)

269

237

721
115
–
–
(56)
92
(7)

865

(500)
(87)
55
(71)

7

(596)

221

269

1,661
186
49
39
(153)
(307)
(20)

1,455

(646)
(107)
110
103

10

(530)

1,365
152
–
26
(57)
188
(13)

1,661

(537)
(103)
55
(68)

7

(646)

1,015

925

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

F: Other statement of financial position notes continued
F2: Property, plant and equipment continued
The carrying value of property, plant and equipment leased to third parties under operating leases included in the above is 
£91 million (2010: £130 million) and comprises land of £10 million (2010: £15 million) and buildings of £81 million (2010: £115 million).

There are no restrictions on property, plant and equipment title as a result of security pledges.

The revaluation of land and buildings relates to Long-Term Savings and to Nedbank. In 2011 Long-Term Savings made revaluation 
gains of £3 million on land and £6 million on buildings (2010: gains of £1 million and £3 million respectively), while Nedbank made 
revaluation gains of £5 million on land and £25 million on buildings (2010: gains of £4 million and £12 million respectively). For 
Long-Term Savings, land and buildings are valued as at 31 December each year by internal professional valuers and external 
valuations are obtained once every three years. External professional valuers are used for Nedbank. For both businesses the 
valuation methodology adopted is dependent upon the nature of the property. Income generating assets are valued using 
discounted cash flows and vacant land and property are valued according to sales of comparable properties. The carrying value that 
would have been recognised had the land and buildings been carried under the cost model would be £26 million (2010: £7 million) 
and £168 million (2010: £174 million) respectively for Long-Term Savings and £22 million (2010: £27 million) and £150 million (2010: 
£167 million) respectively for Nedbank.

Additions and depreciation by segment

Year ended 31 December 2011

Additions
Depreciation

Long-Term 
Savings 

32
24

142
68

Nedbank

M&F

US Asset 
Management

Year ended 31 December 2010

Additions
Depreciation

F3: Investment property

Long-Term 
Savings 

19
23

Nedbank 

119
63

Balance at beginning of the year
Additions
Additions from business combinations
Disposals
Net (loss)/gain from fair value adjustments
Foreign exchange and other movements
Transfer to non-current assets held for sale

Balance at end of the year

6
5

M&F

4
6

4
7

US Asset 
Management

3
8

Nordic

2
3

Nordic

7
3

£m

Total

186
107

£m

Total

152
103

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

2,040
57
290
(6)
(68)
(249)
–

2,064

1,759
162
–
(272)
30
362
(1)

2,040

In 2011 additions of £57 million (2010: £162 million) related to Long-Term Savings. Of the net (loss)/gain arising from fair value 
adjustments on investment properties, a £68 million loss (2010: £30 million gain) related to Long-Term Savings.

The fair value of investment property (freehold) leased to third parties under operating leases is as follows:

Freehold
Long leaseholds

Rental income from investment property
Direct operating expense arising from investment property that generated rental income

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£m

Year ended 
 31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

2,051
13

2,064

184
(19)

165

2,040
–

2,040

163
(19)

144

The carrying amount of investment property is the fair value of the property as determined by a registered independent valuer at 
least every three years, and annually by locally qualified staff, having an appropriate recognised professional qualification and recent 
experience in the location and category of the property being valued. Fair values are determined having regard to recent market 
transactions for similar properties in the same location as the Group’s investment property. The Group’s current lease arrangements, 
which are entered into on an arm’s length basis and which are comparable to those for similar properties in the same location, are 
taken into account.

Of the total investment property of £2,064 million (2010: £2,040 million), £1,715 million (2010: £1,699 million) is attributable to South 
Africa and £349 million (2010: £341 million) to Europe.

F4: Deferred acquisition costs

At 31 December

Balance at beginning

of the year
New business
Amortisation
Impairment losses

charged for the year
Foreign exchange and 
other movements
Transfer to non-current 
assets held for sale

Balance at end of 

the year

Insurance contracts

Investment contracts

Asset management

Total

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

2011

2010

£m

212
8
(65)

–

(23)

(31)

101

1,934
86
(308)

–

(186)

(1,314)

1,187
273
(212)

–

(45)

(89)

1,079
276
(221)

–

53

–

135
61
(57)

1

(4)

–

125
64
(48)

(10)

4

–

1,534
342
(334)

1

(72)

3,138
426
(577)

(10)

(129)

(120)

(1,314)

212

1,114

1,187

136

135

1,351

1,534

F5: Trade, other receivables and other assets

Debtors arising from direct insurance operations

Amounts owed by policyholders
Amounts owed by intermediaries
Other

Debtors arising from direct insurance operations
Debtors arising from reinsurance operations
Outstanding settlements
Reinsurance treaties
Other receivables
Accrued interest and rent
Trading securities and spot positions
Prepayments and accrued income
Other assets

£m

At 
 31 December 
2011

At 
 31 December 
2010

86
76
41

203
35
360
754
801
350
530
90
225

85
89
85

259
39
461
974
840
400
506
145
310

Total trade, other receivables and other assets

3,348

3,934

Based on the maturity profile of the above assets, £1,800 million (2010: £2,933 million) is regarded as current and £1,548 million 
(2010: £1,001 million) as non-current. All amounts outstanding are short-term in nature. No significant balances are past due or 
impaired.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

F: Other statement of financial position notes continued
F6: Provisions

311
(15)
58
(43)
(31)
(13)

267
2

269

£m

Total

295
(29)
69
(45)
21

311
(51)

260

Year ended 31 December 2011

Balance at beginning of the year
Unused amounts reversed
Charge to income statement
Utilised during the year
Foreign exchange and other movements
Transfer to non-current assets held for sale

Post-employment benefits

Balance at end of the year

Client 
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Liability for 
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Provision for 
donations

Other

Total

£m

39
–
–
(3)
7
–

43

43

57
(1)
33
(30)
(8)
(4)

47

47

34
–
11
(7)
(1)
–

37

37

89
–
–
–
(11)
–

78

78

92
(14)
14
(3)
(18)
(9)

62
2

64

Year ended 31 December 2010

Balance at beginning of the year
Unused amounts reversed
Charge to income statement
Utilised during the year
Foreign exchange and other movements

Post-employment benefits

Balance at end of the year

Client 
compensation

Liability for long 
service leave

Restructuring

Provision for 
donations

Other

30
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7
(9)
11

39

39

49
–
28
(27)
7

57

57

42
(10)
9
(4)
(3)

34

34

84
–
–
–
5

89

89

90
(19)
25
(5)
1

92
(51)

41

Provisions in relation to client compensation were £43 million (2010: £39 million), primarily relating to possible mis-selling of guarantee 
contracts in Wealth Management. £1 million (2010: £1 million) is estimated to be payable after more than one year.

The liability for long service leave of £47 million (2010: £57 million) relates to provision for staff payments for long serving employees, 
all of which is estimated to be payable in less than one year.

Provisions in relation to restructuring were £37 million (2010: £34 million), primarily in respect of consolidation and related office 
relocation for elements of Wealth Management. £21 million (2010: £30 million) is estimated to be payable after more than one year. 

The provision for donations is held by Emerging Markets in respect of South African operations in relation to the payment of 
charitable donations in future periods to which the Group is committed to use these funds. The funds were made available on the 
closure of the Group’s unclaimed shares trusts which were set up as part of the demutualisation in 1999 and closed in 2006, with 
£78 million (2010: £70 million) estimated to be payable after more than one year.

Other provisions include provisions for long-term staff benefits and legal fees.

Where material, provisions are discounted at discount rates specific to the risks inherent in the liability. The timing and final amounts 
of payments in respect of some of the provisions, particularly those in respect of litigation claims and similar actions against the 
Group, are uncertain and could result in adjustments to the amounts recorded. Of the total provisions recorded above, £129 million 
(2010: £163 million) is estimated to be payable after more than one year.

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F7: Deferred revenue

Long-term business

Asset management

General insurance

Total

Year ended 31 December

Balance at beginning of the year
Fees and commission income deferred
Amortisation
Foreign exchange and other movements
Transfer to non-current assets held 

for sale

Balance at end of the year

2011

621
87
(49)
(13)

(56)

590

2010

556
107
(39)
21

(24)

621

2011

2010

2011

2010

98
46
(41)
(1)

–

102

89
48
(39)
1

(1)

98

11
–
–
(2)

–

9

9
1
–
1

–

11

2011

730
133
(90)
(16)

(56)

701

£m

2010

654
156
(78)
23

(25)

730

F8: Deferred tax assets and liabilities
Deferred income taxes are calculated on all temporary differences at the tax rate applicable to the jurisdiction in which the timing 
differences arise.

(a) Deferred tax assets
The movement on the deferred tax assets account is as follows:

Year ended 31 December 2011

Insurance funds
Tax losses carried forward
Accelerated capital allowances
Other temporary differences
Netted against liabilities
Deferred fee income

At  
beginning  
of the year

Income 
statement 
credit/  

(charge)

Charged 
to equity

Acquisition/ 
disposal of 
subsidiaries*

Foreign 
exchange and 
other 
movements

(2)
209
2
234
(214)
187

416

–
14
(1)
16
14
–

43

–
–
–
(1)
–
–

(1)

–
(53)
–
(36)
21
(15)

(83)

1
(6)
–
(28)
3
(6)

(36)

*  Includes transferring Nordic into non-current assets held for sale

£m

At end 
of the year

(1)
164
1
185
(176)
166

339

£m

Year ended 31 December 2010

Insurance funds
Tax losses carried forward
Accelerated capital allowances
Available-for-sale securities
Other temporary differences
Netted against liabilities
Deferred fee income

At  
beginning  
of the year

Income 
statement 
(charge)/ 
credit 

(Charged)/
credited 
 to equity

Acquisition/ 
disposal of 
subsidiaries**

Foreign 
exchange and 
other 
movements

At end  

of the year

286
269
6
185
265
(624)
183

570

–
(30)
(4)
–
27
5
7

5

–
–
–
(182)
2
–
(1)

(181)

(288)
(42)
–
(7)
(66)
399
–

(4)

–
12
–
4
6
6
(2)

26

(2)
209
2
–
234
(214)
187

416

** Includes transferring US Life into non-current assets held for sale

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

F: Other statement of financial position notes continued
F8: Deferred tax assets and liabilities continued
Deferred tax assets are recognised for tax losses carried forward only to the extent that realisation of the related tax benefit is 
probable, being where on the basis of all available evidence it is considered more likely than not that there will be suitable taxable 
profits against which the reversal of the deferred tax asset can be deducted. The amounts for which no deferred tax asset has been 
recognised comprise:

Unrelieved tax losses
Expiring in less than a year
Expiring in the second to fifth years inclusive
Expiring after five years
Accelerated capital allowances
Other timing differences

(b) Deferred tax liabilities
The movement on the deferred tax liabilities account is as follows:

31 December 2011

31 December 2010

Gross amount

Tax

Gross amount

49
197
1,784
126
533

2,689

3
10
396
31
89

529

–
–
2,473
117
296

2,886

£m

Tax

–
–
459
31
79

569

£m

At beginning 
 of the year

Income 
statement 
(credit)/
charge 

Credited 
 to equity

Acquisition/ 
disposal of 
subsidiaries*

Foreign 
exchange and 
other 
movements

At end  

of the year

Year ended 31 December 2011

Accelerated tax depreciation
Deferred acquisition costs
Leasing
PVIF
Other acquired intangibles
Available-for-sale securities
Other temporary differences
Policyholder tax
Netted against assets

29
197
53
197
65
5
381
145
(214)

858

(2)
1
(9)
(27)
(14)
–
(130)
(7)
14

(174)

–
–
–
–
–
(1)
–
–
–

(1)

–
(14)
–
(31)
(13)
1
(68)
–
21

(104)

(5)
(14)
(7)
(2)
(1)
(2)
(21)
(26)
3

(75)

22
170
37
137
37
3
162
112
(176)

504

£m

*  Includes transferring Nordic into non-current assets held for sale and consolidation of other African businesses

Year ended 31 December 2010

Accelerated tax depreciation
Deferred acquisition costs
Leasing
PVIF
Other acquired intangibles
Available-for-sale securities
Other temporary differences
Policyholder tax
Netted against assets

At beginning  
of the year

Income 
statement 
charge/ 
 (credit) 

Credited 
 to equity

Acquisition/ 
disposal of 
subsidiaries**

Foreign 
exchange and 
other 
movements

At end  

of the year

24
662
44
224
86
2
366
121
(624)

905

1
26
–
(24)
(19)
1
38
4
5

32

–
(115)
–
–
–
–
–
–
–

(115)

(1)
(404)
–
–
–
–
(5)
–
399

(11)

5
28
9
(3)
(2)
2
(18)
20
6

47

29
197
53
197
65
5
381
145
(214)

858

** Included transferring US Life into non-current assets held for sale

As the Group is able to control the reversal of temporary differences in respect of investments in subsidiaries and branches, and it is 
probable that these temporary differences will not reverse in the foreseeable future, there is no need to provide for the associated 
deferred tax liabilities. The aggregate amount of temporary differences on which further tax might be due if these temporary 
differences reversed is estimated at £3.0 billion (2010: £3.4 billion).

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F9: Trade, other payables and other liabilities

Amounts payable on direct insurance business
Funds held under reinsurance business ceded
Amounts owed to policyholders
Amounts owed to intermediaries
Other direct insurance operation creditors

Amounts payable on direct insurance business
Accounts payable on reinsurance business
Accruals and deferred income
Share-based payments – cash-settled scheme liabilities
Short trading securities, spot positions and other
Trade creditors
Outstanding settlements
Total securities sold under agreements to repurchase
Obligations in relation to collateral holdings
Other liabilities

Total trade, other payables and other liabilities

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

123
397
76
70

666
38
526
37
931
305
555
89
410
686

4,243

119
326
90
60

595
35
697
21
1,598
304
503
117
995
796

5,661

Included in the amounts shown above are £3,531 million (2010: £3,885 million) that are regarded as current and £712million (2010: 
£1,776 million) as non-current.

F10: Equity
(a) Share capital

Authorised and issued share capital

Authorised ordinary shares of 10p each
Issued ordinary shares of 10p each

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

750
580

750
570

(b) Perpetual preferred callable securities
In addition to the Group’s senior and subordinated debt, the Group has issued two separate tranches of perpetual preferred callable 
securities with a total carrying value of £688 million (2010: £688 million) at 31 December 2011. In accordance with IFRS accounting 
standards these instruments are classified as equity and disclosed within equity shareholders’ funds as shown on pages 132 and 133.

£350 million perpetual preferred callable securities. These are unsecured and subordinated to the claims of senior creditors and the 
holders of any priority preference shares. For an initial period to 24 March 2020 interest is payable at a fixed rate of 6.4% per annum 
annually in arrears. From 24 March 2020 interest is reset semi-annually at 2.2% per annum above the sterling inter-bank offer rate for six 
month sterling deposits, and is payable semi-annually in arrears. Coupon payments may be deferred at the Group’s discretion. The 
perpetual preferred callable securities are redeemable at the discretion of the Group at their principal amount from 24 March 2020.

€500 million perpetual preferred callable securities – Step-up Option B Undated Subordinated Notes issued under a Global Note 
Programme. These are unsecured and subordinated to the claims of senior creditors and the holders of any priority preference 
shares. For an initial period to 4 November 2015 the notes pay interest at a fixed rate of 5.0% per annum annually in arrears. After 
this date the interest is reset semi-annually at 2.63% per annum above six month EURIBOR and is payable semi-annually in arrears. 
Coupon payments may be deferred at the Group’s discretion. The perpetual preferred callable securities are redeemable at the 
discretion of the Group at their principal amount from 4 November 2015.

F11: Non-controlling interests
(a) Income statement
(i) Ordinary shares
The non-controlling interests share of profit for the financial year has been calculated on the basis of the Group’s effective ownership 
of the subsidiaries in which it does not own 100% of the ordinary equity. The principal subsidiaries where a non-controlling interest 
exists are the Group’s banking business in South Africa and, prior to the acquisition of the non-controlling interest in Mutual & Federal 
in February 2010 (see F11(b)), the general insurance business in South Africa. For the year ended 31 December 2011 the non-
controlling interests attributable to ordinary shares was £238 million (2010: £196 million).

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

F: Other statement of financial position notes continued
F11: Non-controlling interests continued
(ii) Preferred securities

R2,000 million non-cumulative preference shares
R773 million non-cumulative preference shares
R355 million non-cumulative preference shares
US$750 million cumulative preferred securities
R363 million non-cumulative preference shares
R92 million non-cumulative preference shares

Non-controlling interests – preferred securities

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
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Year ended  
31 December 
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14
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62

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(iii) Non-controlling interests – adjusted operating profit
The following table reconciles non-controlling interests’ share of profit for the financial year to non-controlling interests’ share of 
adjusted operating profit:

Reconciliation of non-controlling interests’ share of profit for the financial year

The non-controlling interests share is analysed as follows:
Non-controlling interests – ordinary shares
Goodwill impairment and impact of acquisition accounting
Short-term fluctuations in investment return
Income attributable to Black Economic Empowerment trusts of listed subsidiaries
Fair value gains on Group debt instruments
Income attributable to US Asset Management non-controlling interests

Non-controlling interests share of adjusted operating profit

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

238
–
1
22
1
(5)

257

196
2
–
22
6
(9)

217

The Group uses revised weighted average effective ownership interests when calculating the non-controllable interest applicable to 
the adjusted operating profit of its South Africa banking and, prior to the acquisition of the non-controlling interest in February 2010, 
general insurance businesses. This reflects the legal ownership of these businesses following the implementation for Black Economic 
Empowerment (BEE) schemes in 2005. In accordance with IFRS accounting rules the shares issued for BEE purposes are deemed 
to be, in substance, options. Therefore the effective ownership interest of the minorities reflected in arriving at profit after tax in the 
consolidated income statement is lower than that applied in arriving at adjusted operating profit after tax. In 2011 the increase in 
adjusted operating profit attributable to non-controlling interests as a result of this was £22 million (2010: £22 million).

(b) Statement of financial position
(i) Ordinary shares

Reconciliation of movements in non-controlling interests

Balance at beginning of the year
Non-controlling interests’ share of profit
Non-controlling interests’ share of dividends paid
Net disposal/(acquisition) of interests
Foreign exchange and other movements

Balance at end of the year

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

1,763
238
(100)
61
(310)

1,652

1,537
196
(88)
(116)
234

1,763

Acquisition of non-controlling interest in Mutual & Federal 
On 5 February 2010, the Group completed the acquisition of the remaining non-controlling shareholdings in Mutual & Federal 
Insurance Company Limited, following the fulfilment of all outstanding conditions precedent. On 8 February 2010, 147,313,449 new 
Old Mutual plc ordinary shares were issued in exchange for Mutual & Federal shares and listed on the London Stock Exchange, of 
which 68,378,851 were issued to Black Economic Empowerment trusts and 78,934,598 to other previous holders.

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Other acquisitions
On 8 February 2010 Nedbank announced that it had obtained regulatory approval for the acquisition of the remaining 49.9% indirect 
interest in Imperial Bank Limited thereby satisfying all conditions precedent for the acquisition.

The purchase consideration was approximately £162 million (£155 million plus a Johannesburg Interbank Agreed Rate (JIBAR) factor 
applied up to 5 February 2010) which was settled in four instalments out of existing cash resources of Nedbank Limited. The total 
amount, which included interest at the three month JIBAR, amounted to £165 million.

(ii) Preferred securities

R2,000 million non-cumulative preference shares1
R773 million non-cumulative preference shares2
US$750 million cumulative preferred securities3
R355 million non-cumulative preference shares4
R363 million non-cumulative preference shares5
R92 million non-cumulative preference shares6

Unamortised issue costs

Total in issue at 31 December

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

140
71
458
25
29
8

731
(13)

718

140
71
458
25
29
50

773
(13)

760

Preferred securities are held at historic value of consideration received less unamortised issue costs.

1.  200 million R10 preference shares issued by Nedbank Limited (Nedbank), the Group’s banking subsidiary. These shares are non-redeemable and non-
cumulative and pay a cash dividend equivalent to 75% of the prime overdraft interest rate of Nedbank. Preference shareholders are only entitled to vote 
during periods when a dividend or any part of it remains unpaid after the due date for payment or when resolutions are proposed that directly affect any rights 
attaching to the shares or the rights of the holders. Preference shareholders will be entitled to receive their dividends in priority to any payment of dividends 
made in respect of any other class of Nedbank’s shares.

2.  77.3 million R10 preference shares issued at R10.68 per share by Nedbank on the same terms as the securities described in (1) above.
3.  US$750 million guaranteed cumulative perpetual preference securities issued on 19 May 2003 by Old Mutual Capital Funding L.P., a subsidiary of the Group. 
Subject to certain limitations, holders of these securities are entitled to receive preferential cash distributions at a fixed rate of 8.0% per annum payable in 
arrears on a quarterly basis. The Group may defer payment of distributions at its sole discretion, but such an act may restrict Old Mutual plc from paying 
dividends on its ordinary shares for a period of 12 months. Arrears of distributions are payable quarterly cumulatively only on redemption of the securities or 
at the Group’s option. The securities are perpetual, but may be redeemed at the discretion of the Group from 22 December 2008.

4. 35 million R10 preference shares issued in 16 April 2007 at R10.27 per share by Nedbank on the same terms as the securities described in (1) above.
5.  36.3 million R10 preference shares issued by Nedbank in seven instalments between September 2009 and December 2009 on the same terms as the 

securities described in (1) above.

6. 9.2 million R10 preference shares issued by Nedbank on 11 March 2010 on the same terms as the securities described in (1) above.

G: Other notes
G1: Post-employment benefits
The Group operates a number of pension schemes around the world. These schemes have been designed and are administered in 
accordance with local conditions and practices in the countries concerned and include both defined contribution and defined benefit 
schemes. The assets of these schemes are held in separate trustee administered funds. Pension costs and contributions relating to 
defined benefit schemes are assessed in accordance with the advice of qualified actuaries. Actuarial advice confirms that the current 
level of contributions payable to each pension scheme, together with existing assets, are adequate to secure members’ benefits over 
the remaining service lives of participating employees. The schemes are reviewed at least on a triennial basis or in accordance with 
local practice and regulations. In the intervening years the actuary reviews the continuing appropriateness of the assumptions 
applied. The actuarial assumptions used to calculate the projected benefit obligations of the Group’s pension schemes vary 
according to the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

G: Other notes continued
G1: Post-employment benefits continued
(a) Liability for defined benefit obligations

Year ended 31 December

Changes in projected benefit obligation
Projected benefit obligation at beginning of the year
Benefits earned during the year
Interest cost on benefit obligation
Actuarial loss/(gain)
Benefits paid
Transfer to held for sale
Foreign exchange and other movements

Projected benefit obligation at end of the year

Change in plan assets
Plan assets at fair value at beginning of the year
Actual return on plan assets
Company contributions
Employee contributions
Benefits paid
Transfer to held for sale
Foreign exchange and other movements

Plan assets at fair value at end of the year

Net (asset)/liability recognised in statement of financial position
Funded status of plan
Unrecognised assets
Other amounts recognised in statement of financial position
Unrecognised actuarial (losses)/gains

Net amount recognised in statement of financial position

(b) Expense/(income) recognised in the income statement

Year ended 31 December

Current service costs
Interest cost
Expected return on plan assets
Net actuarial losses recognised in the year
Other benefit retirement plans

Total (included in staff costs)

Pension plans

Other post-retirement  
benefit schemes

2011

2010

2011

2010

£m

977
7
39
14
(29)
(388)
(74)

546

1,119
57
13
1
(27)
(463)
(106)

594

(48)
4
–
(10)

(54)

815
9
50
53
(50)
–
100

977

953
90
12
1
(47)
–
110

1,119

(142)
12
1
23

(106)

270
7
18
14
(7)
–
(56)

246

218
13
(3)
–
(7)
–
(43)

178

68
(22)
1
9

56

211
6
19
(2)
(3)
–
39

270

175
17
(5)
–
(3)
–
34

218

52
(10)
1
12

55

£m

Pension plans

Other post-retirement  
benefit schemes

2011

4
28
(38)
3
–

(3)

2010  

Restated

2011

2010

2
27
(40)
8
–

(3)

7
18
(15)
–
–

10

8
19
(15)
–
–

12

Actuarial assumptions used in calculating the projected benefit obligation are based on mortality estimates relevant to the economic 
countries in which they operate, with a specific allowance made for future improvements in mortality which is broadly in line with that 
adopted for the 92 series of mortality tables prepared by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau of the Institute of Actuaries.

The expected returns on plan assets have been determined on the basis of long-term expectations, the carrying value of the assets 
and the market conditions at the reporting date specific to the relevant locations.

The effect to the Group’s obligation of a 1% increase and 1% decrease in the assumed health cost trend rates would be an increase 
of £19 million and decrease of £15 million (2010: increase of £22 million and decrease of £17 million) respectively.

The detailed actuarial assumptions can be viewed on the Group’s website at www.oldmutual.com

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(c) Plan asset allocation

At 31 December

Equity securities
Debt securities
Property
Cash
Annuities and other

Pension plans

Other post-retirement  
benefit schemes

%

2011

32.2
42.4
4.1
2.0
19.3

2010

37.8
41.7
7.0
1.0
12.5

2011

35.3
26.3
4.7
23.5
10.2

100.0

100.0

100.0

2010

36.5
26.3
4.4
23.5
9.3

100.0

Pension and other retirement benefit plan assets include ordinary shares issued by the Company with a fair value of £nil (2010: £nil).

(d) Summary of Group pension plans

At 31 December

Present value of defined benefit obligations
Fair value of plan assets

Surplus

Experience losses arising on defined benefit plan liabilities:
Amount
As a percentage of plan liabilities
Experience gains arising on defined benefit plan assets:
Amount
As a percentage of plan assets

2011

(546)
594

48

11
(2.0)%

(11)
(1.9)%

2010

(977)
1,119

142

(4)
0.4%

(11)
(1.0)%

2009

(815)
953

138

8
(1.0)%

(8)
(0.8)%

2008

(778)
828

50

2
0.0%

(69)
(8.3)%

£m

2007

(675)
855

180

(5)
0.7%

39
4.3%

Total contributions expected to be paid to the Group pension plans for the year ending 31 December 2012 are £13 million (subject to 
any reassessments to be completed in the year).

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(a) Reconciliation of movements in options
During the year ended 31 December 2011, the Group had a number of share-based payment arrangements. The movement in the 
options outstanding under these arrangements during the year is detailed below:

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Outstanding at beginning of the year
Granted during the year
Forfeited during the year
Exercised during the year
Expired during the year

Outstanding at end of the year

Exercisable at 31 December

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Number of 
options

63,745,407
1,742,700
(1,424,629)
(4,444,580)
(7,556,947)

52,061,951

1,722,807

Weighted 
average 
exercise  

price

£0.61
£1.10
£0.47
£0.89
£1.05

£0.53

£0.74

Number of 
options

77,490,352
4,720,010
(7,162,357)
(5,362,778)
(5,939,820)

63,745,407

1,767,384

Weighted 
average 
exercise 
 price

£0.66
£1.12
£0.87
£0.76
£1.21

£0.61

£1.31

The options outstanding at 31 December 2011 have an exercise price in the range of £0.35 to £1.53 (2010: £0.35 to £1.63) and a 
weighted average remaining contractual life of 0.7 years (2010: 1.7 years). The weighted average share price at date of exercise for 
options exercised during the year was £1.28 (2010: £1.19).

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

G: Other notes continued
G2: Share-based payments continued

Options over shares in Old Mutual plc (Johannesburg Stock Exchange)

Outstanding at beginning of the year
Conversion from options over shares in Mutual & Federal (see below)
Granted during the year
Forfeited during the year
Exercised during the year
Expired during the year

Outstanding at end of the year

Exercisable at 31 December

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Number of 
options

73,997,737
–
16,000,162
(13,107,564)
(10,093,503)
(1,971,258)

Weighted 
average 
exercise 
 price

R11.57
–
R15.78
R17.51
R112.05
R13.77

Number of 
options

63,770,329
9,060,754
15,736,775
(8,645,294)
(3,443,611)
(2,481,216)

64,825,574

R11.41

73,997,737

2,277,440

R11.52

10,673,737

Weighted 
average 
exercise  
price

R12.45
R9.48
R13.87
R18.94
R10.97
R14.43

R11.57

R12.72

The options outstanding at 31 December 2011 have an exercise price in the range of R1.45 to R19.10 (2010: R1.45 to R19.10) and a 
weighted average remaining contractual life of 4.1 years (2010: 3.9 years). The weighted average share price at date of exercise for 
options exercised during the year was R14.34 (2010: R13.92).

Options over shares in Nedbank Group Ltd

Outstanding at beginning of the year
Granted during the year
Forfeited during the year
Exercised during the year
Expired during the year

Outstanding at end of the year

Exercisable at 31 December

Year ended 31 December 2010

Year ended 31 December 
2011

Number of 
options

Weighted 
average 
exercise price

25,879,278
921,526
(508,771)
(12,205,562)
(49,629)

R126.71
R132.06
R113.07
R101.09
R118.56

Number of 
options

36,950,389
1,486,893
(1,286,772)
(5,943,004)
(5,328,228)

14,036,842

R149.94

25,879,278

865,712

R98.92

1,890,932

Weighted 
average 
exercise price

R124.86
R125.36
R105.23
R94.47
R140.67

R126.71

R100.75

The options outstanding at 31 December 2011 have an exercise price in the range of R108 to R282.58 (2010: R78 to R282.58) and a 
weighted average remaining contractual life of 3.7 years (2010: 2.5 years). The weighted average share price at date of exercise for 
options exercised during the year was R129.61 (2010: R131.17). 

In February 2010 the Group completed the acquisition of the remaining non-controlling interests in Mutual & Federal Insurance 
Company Ltd, with new Old Mutual plc shares issued in exchange for Mutual & Federal shares. In conjunction with the acquisition, 
options previously held over shares in Mutual & Federal were converted into options over shares in Old Mutual plc, being converted 
at a rate consistent with the acquisition terms.

(b) Measurements and assumptions
The fair value of services received in return for share options granted is measured by reference to the fair value of share options 
granted. The estimate of the fair value of share options granted is measured using a Black-Scholes option pricing model.

Share options are granted under a service and non-market based performance condition. Such conditions are not taken into 
account in the grant date fair value measurement of the share options granted. There are no market conditions associated with the 
share option grants.

The grant date for the UK and South African Share Option and Deferred Delivery Plan annual awards is deemed to be 1 January in 
the year prior to the date of issue. As such the Group is required to estimate, at the reporting date, the number and fair value of the 
options that will be granted in the following year. The fair value of awards expected to be granted in 2012 which will have an IFRS 2 
grant date of 1 January 2011, is shown separately below. The grant date for all other awards is the award issue date.

(c) Share-based payment arrangements relating to US Asset Management
During the year ended 31 December 2011, US Asset Management had the following share-based payment arrangements:

Acadian Asset Management (AAM)
Class B equity interests in AAM acquired by employees during 2007 entitled the participating employees to 28.57% of the earnings 
of AAM in excess of $120 million, and to a liquidation preference proportionate to their shareholding. In consideration for the equity 

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acquired, the participating employees agreed to forego a portion of existing long-term incentive payments owed. The difference 
between the carrying amount of this consideration and the fair value of the interest acquired was treated as a share-based 
compensation expense in 2007. Fair value was determined based on the discounted projected future cash flows of AAM.

During 2011, the AAM plan was modified such that the threshold above which key employees participate in earnings was reduced to 
$75 million, and a feature was added such that participating employees may sell their equity back to Old Mutual at a fixed multiple of 
prior year earnings, subject to certain restrictions. Participants are required to remain employed until 31 March 2013 to benefit from 
these amendments. The difference in fair value between the modified AAM plan and the original AAM plan was $21 million at 31 
December 2011, and the vested portion of $8 million has been recognised as a compensation expense during the year. There were 
no instruments purchased or granted by the AAM plan in the year (2010: nil). 

IPO Incentive Plan
During 2011, a stock-based compensation plan was implemented for certain key employees of US Asset Management in connection 
with the potential initial public offering (IPO) of the business. The plan is designed to reward participants for achieving strategic 
objectives and metrics and value creation over the period leading up to an initial IPO, should one proceed. The awards consist of a 
mix of cash, payable at completion of an IPO, and restricted shares in the newly-listed US entity, which would be granted upon 
completion of an IPO and vest over three years from that date. Should an IPO not proceed during the maximum term of the plan, the 
awards will be paid out in cash. The value and quantity of the cash and share portions of the awards will be dependent on the 
achievement of performance objectives, financial targets and potential IPO proceeds. The awards are accounted for as a share-
based payment liability and recognised over the vesting period and revalued at each period end based on projected results of the 
performance conditions, with fair value measured using a Monte-Carlo simulation. The expense recognised during 2011 in relation to 
this plan was $1.3 million.

OMAM Affiliate Equity Plan
Equity granted during the year to employees of firms participating in the OMAM Affiliate Equity Plan vests 3 to 5 years from the date 
of grant, conditional upon continued employment over this period. Equity purchased vested immediately. Fair value was determined 
based on a multiple of prior year earnings. Under the terms of the arrangements, participating employees may sell their equity back 
to Old Mutual (which acts as a buyer of last resort) at a fixed multiple of prior year earnings, subject to certain restrictions. 
Accordingly, the schemes are accounted for as cash-settled share-based payments, despite the fact the initial purchase and/or 
grants of equity are settled in equity instruments.

The following summarises the instruments purchased from and granted by US Asset Management during the year:

Instruments granted and purchased during the year

OMAM Affiliate Equity Plan
Percentage of affiliate equity

Fair value of instruments ($USm)1

Affiliate share 
purchases

Affiliate share 
grants

Affiliate shares 
forfeited/ 
bought back

Total 
non-controlling 
interest in 
affiliate

2011
2010

2011
2010

0.07%
1.64%

–
–

3.88%
2.89%

$31m
$18.1m

(0.11)%
(0.14)%

–
–

3.84%
4.39%

$31m
$18.1m

1. Represents fair value in excess of consideration granted for affiliate share purchases.

US Asset Management annual bonus awards
The OMAM Affiliate Equity Plans are incorporated into annual bonus awards of employees at participating firms, which are to be 
settled partly in cash, and partly in equity. The level of bonus is contingent upon current year financial and individual performance, 
therefore the vesting period for bonus equity to be granted during 2012 in respect of the 2011 financial year has been determined to 
commence from 1 January 2011.

It is anticipated that instruments with a fair value of US$15.8 million (2010: US$7.9 million and 2009: US$8.7 million) will be granted 
during 2012 to firms participating in the OMAM Affiliate Equity Plan based on 2011 financial performance.

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

G: Other notes continued
G2: Share-based payments continued
(d) Restricted share grants
The following summarises the fair value of restricted shares granted by the Group during the year:

Shares in Old Mutual plc (London Stock Exchange)

Shares in Old Mutual plc (Johannesburg Stock Exchange)

Shares in Nedbank Group Ltd

Shares in Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Ltd

Restricted 
shares issued 
on buy-out of 
M&F minorities*

Number 
granted

Weighted 
average fair 
value

2011
2010

2011
2010

2011
2010

2011
2010

–
–

–
–

–
–

–
19,418,697

13,429,616
17,500,337

18,961,207
14,506,095

4,806,015
–

5,147,317
1,052,601

£1.44
£1.20

R15.49
R13.90

R134.64
–

R13.98
R10.82

The share price at measurement date was used to determine the fair value of the restricted shares. Expected dividends were not 
incorporated into the measurement of fair value where the holder of the restricted share is entitled to dividends throughout the 
vesting period.

*   In February 2010 the Group completed the acquisition of the remaining non-controlling interests in Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Ltd, with new Old 

Mutual plc shares issued in exchange for Mutual & Federal shares. In conjunction with the acquisition, options previously held over shares in Mutual & Federal 
were converted into options over shares in Old Mutual plc, being converted at a rate consistent with the acquisition terms.

(e) Annual bonus awards
The UK and South Africa Share Option and Deferred Delivery Plans give rise to annual bonus awards. The level of annual bonus 
awards is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of individual and company performance targets, measured over the financial 
year prior to the date the employees receive the award. The accounting grant date for the South African and UK annual bonus plans 
(other than the new joiner and newly qualified grants) has therefore been determined as 1 January in the year prior to the date of 
issue of the grants.

The Group anticipates awards under the South African scheme of nil options (2010: 21,954,975 options) and 15,983,524 restricted 
shares (2010: 18,612,145 restricted shares.) The options have been valued using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, using an at 
the money option assumption. The restricted shares have been valued using a share price of R17.04 (2010: R12.99).

The Group estimate of the total fair value of the annual bonus expected to be paid in the form of options and restricted shares under 
the UK Share Option and Deferred Delivery Plan is outlined below. The fair value is determined by making an estimate of the level of 
bonus to be paid out following the attainment of personal and company performance conditions.

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Total  
fair value,  

£m

12
–

Vesting 
period

4.2 years
–

Total fair 
 value,  

£m Vesting period

6
3

4.2 years
4.2 years

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

24
37

61

37

–

13
7

20

21

–

Old Mutual plc performance share plans – restricted shares
Old Mutual plc performance share plans – options

(f) Financial impact

Expense arising from equity settled share and share option plans
Expense arising from cash settled share and share option plans

Closing balance of liability for cash settled share awards

Total intrinsic value liability for vested benefits

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G3: Related parties
The Group provides certain pension fund, insurance, banking and financial services to related parties. These are conducted on an 
arm’s length basis and are not material to the Group’s results.

(a) Transactions with key management personnel, remuneration and other compensation
Key management personnel are those persons having authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities 
of the Group, directly or indirectly, including any director (whether executive or otherwise) of the Group. Details of the compensation 
paid to the Board of directors as well as their shareholdings in the Company are disclosed in the Remuneration Report on page 119 
and Corporate Governance report on page 100 respectively.

(b) Key management personnel remuneration and other compensation

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Number of 
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Value £000s

Number of 
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Value £000s

12

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1,638
25,176
5,969
8,751
1,296
12
9,148

26,814

12

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18
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7
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1,510
22,819
6,675
7,660
451
14
8,019

24,329

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

 Number of 
personnel

13
1
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Number of 
options/

shares  
’000s

14,499
(70)
274
193
(2,079) 
(1,335) 

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Number of 
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Number of 
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’000s

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Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

 Number of 
personnel

14
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Number of 
options/
shares 
 ’000s

19,142
(641)
1,580
7,111
(2,270)
(3,270)

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Number of 
personnel

Number of 
options/shares 
’000s

10
2
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14

7,832
(1,565)
1,314
12,282
(151)
(570)

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Remuneration

Cash remuneration
Short-term employee benefits
Post-employment benefits
Other long-term benefits
Share-based payments

Share options

Outstanding at beginning of the year
Leavers
New appointments
Granted during the year
Exercised during the year
Lapsed during the year

Outstanding at end of the year

Restricted shares

Outstanding at beginning of the year
Leavers
New appointments
Granted during the year
Lapsed during the year
Released during the year

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

G: Other notes continued
G3: Related parties
(c) Key management personnel transactions
Key management personnel and members of their close family have undertaken transactions with Old Mutual plc and its 
subsidiaries, jointly controlled entities and associated undertakings in the normal course of business, details of which are given 
below. For current accounts positive values indicate assets of the individual whilst for credit cards and mortgages positive values 
indicate liabilities of the individual.

Current accounts
Balance at beginning of the year
Net movement during the year

Balance at end of the year

Credit cards
Balance at beginning of the year
Net movement during the year

Balance at end of the year

Mortgages
Balance at beginning of the year
Net movement during the year
Interest charged
Less repayments
Foreign exchange movements

Balance at end of the year

General insurance contracts 
Total premium paid during the year
Claims paid during the year
Life insurance products
Total sum assured/value of investment at end of the year

Pensions, termination benefits paid 

Value of pension plan as at end of the year

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Number of 
personnel

Value  
£000s

Number of 
personnel

Value 
 £000s

8

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(348)

324

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1,791
(627)
49
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186

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10

16,029

5,700

7

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4

5

5

5

3
1

13

13

265
407

672

22
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(1,125)
86
(334)
136

1,791

18
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23,501

6,714

Various members of key management personnel hold, and/or have at various times during the year held, investments managed by 
asset management businesses of the Group. These include unit trusts, mutual funds and hedge funds. None of the amounts 
concerned are material in the context of the funds managed by the Group business concerned, and all of the investments have been 
made by the individuals concerned either on terms which are the same as those available to external clients generally or, where that 
is not the case, on the same preferential terms as were available to employees of the business generally.

(d) Skandia Liv
Livförsäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (publ) (Skandia Liv), is a related party to the Old Mutual Group. Skandia Liv is a wholly owned 
subsidiary of Skandia and its business is conducted on a mutual basis. For the reasons given in the accounting policies Skandia Liv’s 
result is not consolidated in these financial statements.

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Material transactions between the Group and the Skandia Liv group in the year ended 31 December 2011 were as follows:

 ■ Agreement in principle and framework agreement on co-operation covering market related functions and certain staff functions – 
this involves distribution and distribution support, customer service, market communication, administration of group insurance 
products, and staff and service functions. Skandia Liv paid £90 million (2010: £88 million) for services rendered under this 
agreement.

 ■ Premises – the Group rented office premises from Skandia Liv. The Group paid market rents of £1 million (2010: £16 million) for 

these premises. 

 ■ Occupational pensions – Skandia Liv provides occupational pensions for the employees of the Group, for which the Group paid 

£17 million (2010: £15 million).

 ■ Agreement on IT services – the Group provides IT services to Skandia Liv. The amount charged to Skandia Liv was £7 million 

(2010: £7 million).

 ■ Settlement with Skandia Liv regarding the arbitration settlement – in a ruling issue on 2 October 2008, the arbitration board ruled 
that the going rate level of compensation in the market pursuant to the 2002 Asset Management Agreement is a maximum of ten 
basis points including value added tax, and that Skandia – for the time from 1 July 2008 and onward – is obligated to pay an 
amount to Skandia Liv that corresponds to the share of asset management fees received that exceed ten basis points including 
value added tax. A reserve to cover asset management fees for the time after 1 July 2008 was charged to the income statement. 
On 21 July 2009, an agreement was reached between Skandia and Skandia Liv, under which Skandia will pay a fixed amount per 
quarter until the end of 2013. The total remaining amount to be paid to Skandia Liv is less than the reserve provision booked as per 
July 2009 with the difference resolved in 2009. The remaining provision of £10 million is shown as a liability to Skandia Liv in the 
statement of financial position.

 ■ Currency derivatives – Skandia Liv hedge their currency position with forward contracts with Skandia Group at the prices 

prevailing on the foreign exchange market. Skandia Liv paid £7 million (2010: £27 million) for forward contracts during the year.
 ■ Capital Contribution – during the year, Skandia Liv made a group contribution of £154 million to the Skandia Group. Unrelieved tax 

losses have been used to offset the entire tax charge on this transaction. Simultaneously, the Skandia Group made a capital 
injection of £110 million back to Skandia Liv, corresponding to the group contribution net of tax relief.

 ■ On 15 December 2011 it was announced that the Group has agreed to sell the Nordic business unit to Skandia Liv. Further detail 

has been provided in note A2.

The balance outstanding at 31 December 2011 due from Skandia Liv was £17 million (2010: £13 million).

Various other arrangements exist between the Group and Skandia Liv, principally in respect of provision of accounting, legal and 
treasury functions, all of which are transacted on an arm’s length basis.

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gROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

G: Other notes continued
G4: Principal subsidiaries and Group enterprises
The following table lists the principal Group undertakings whose results are included in the consolidated financial statements. All 
shares held are ordinary shares and, except for OM Group (UK) Ltd, are held indirectly by the Company.

Name

Nature of business

Percentage holding

Country of incorporation

Old Mutual (South Africa) Ltd
Holding company
Old Mutual Africa Holdings (Pty) Ltd Holding company
Old Mutual Life Assurance Company 

(South Africa) Ltd

Life assurance

Old Mutual Investment Group 

(South Africa) (Pty) Ltd

Nedbank Group Ltd
Nedbank Ltd
Mutual & Federal Insurance 

Asset management
Banking
Banking

Company Ltd

General insurance

Old Mutual Life Assurance 
Company (Namibia) Ltd
Old Mutual (US) Holdings, Inc
Dwight Asset Management Company Asset management
Old Mutual (Bermuda) Ltd
Acadian Asset Management LLC1
Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss

Life assurance
Asset management

Life assurance
Holding company

LLC

OM Group (UK) Ltd
Old Mutual Wealth Management 

Asset management
Holding company

Limited

Holding company

Skandia Europe and Latin America 

(Holdings) Ltd

Holding company

Skandia Life Assurance Company Ltd Life assurance
Life assurance
Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia
Banking
Skandiabanken AB
Holding company
Old Mutual (Netherlands) B.V.

100
100

100

100
58
58

100

100
100
100
100
100

100
100

100

100
100
100
100
100

Republic of South Africa
Republic of South Africa

Republic of South Africa

Republic of South Africa
Republic of South Africa
Republic of South Africa

Republic of South Africa

Namibia
Delaware, USA
Delaware, USA
Bermuda
Delaware, USA

Delaware, USA
England and Wales

England and Wales

England and Wales
England and Wales
Sweden
Sweden
Netherlands

1.  The Group holds 100% Class A shares and 71.43% Class B shares in Acadian Asset Management. The remaining 28.57% Class B shares are held by the 

employees as described in note G2(e).

A complete list of subsidiaries is filed with the UK Registrar of Companies with the annual return. All the above companies have a 
year end of 31 December.

As described in the accounting policies Skandia Liv is not consolidated in these financial statements. Skandia Liv’s unaudited capital 
and reserves are summarised as follows:

Capital and reserves
(Loss)/profit after tax

£m (unaudited)

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

32
(2)

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G5: Investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures
(a) Investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures
The Group’s investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures accounted for under the equity method are as follows:

At 31 December 2011

Country of operation

Republic of South Africa
Visigro Investments (Pty) Ltd
Republic of South Africa
Odyssey Developments (Pty) Ltd
Republic of South Africa
Old Mutual Finance (Pty) Ltd
Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance Ltd
India
Old Mutual–Guodian Life Insurance Company Ltd China
All other associated undertakings

% interest 
held

Carrying  
 value

£m

Group share  

of profit/
(loss)

30%
49%
50%
26%
50%

6
8
6
26
12
53

111

–
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7
6
(4)
1

10

All of the above investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures are unlisted. All investments in associated undertakings 
and joint ventures are equity accounted using financial information as at 31 December 2011. 

At 31 December 2010

Country of operation

% interest held

Carrying value

Republic of South Africa
Clidet No. 638 (Pty) Ltd
Republic of South Africa
Visigro Investments (Pty) Ltd
Republic of South Africa
Odyssey Developments (Pty) Ltd
Republic of South Africa
Old Mutual Finance (Pty) Ltd
India
Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance Ltd
Old Mutual–Guodian Life Insurance Company Ltd China
All other associated undertakings

49%
30%
49%
50%
26%
50%

29
8
10
5
13
12
85

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(b) Aggregate financial information of investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures
The aggregate financial information for all investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures is as follows:

£m

Group share of 
profit/(loss) 
Restated

–
–
–
4
2
(4)
3

5

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011 

Year ended  
31 December 
2010 

Restated
Total assets
Total liabilities
Total revenues
Net profit after tax

(c) Aggregate Group investment in associated undertakings and joint ventures
The aggregate amounts for the Group’s investment in associated undertakings and joint ventures are as follows:

2,172
1,947
607
10

2,032
1,857
653
5

£m

Balance at beginning of the year
Net (disposals)/additions of investment in associated undertakings and joint ventures
Share of profit after tax
Dividends paid
Foreign exchange and other movements

Balance at end of the year

Year ended  
 31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

162
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(4)
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135
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7
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9

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

G: Other notes continued
G5: Investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures continued
(d) Contingent liabilities
The Group is severally liable for the contingent liabilities relating to investments in associated undertakings of £nil (2010: £1 million).

(e) Other Group holdings
The above does not include companies whereby the Group has a holding of more than 20%, but does not have significant influence over 
these companies by virtue of the Group not having any direct involvement in decision making or the other owners possessing veto rights.

G6: Contingent liabilities

Guarantees and assets pledged as collateral security
Irrevocable letters of credit
Secured lending
Other contingent liabilities

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At 
 31 December 
2010

2,251
193
515
72

2,883
207
775
55

The Group has pledged debt securities amounting to £1,196 million (2010: £1,379 million) as collateral for deposits received under 
re-purchase agreements. These amounts represent assets that have been transferred but do not qualify for derecognition under IAS 
39. These transactions are entered into under terms and conditions that are standard industry practice for securities borrowing and 
lending activities.

Contingent liabilities – tax
The Revenue authorities in the principle jurisdictions in which the Group operates (South Africa and the United Kingdom) are 
reviewing certain historic transactions undertaken and tax law interpretations made by the Group. More generally the Group is also 
experiencing increased review by fiscal authorities of routine matters. Whilst provisions are made for liabilities which might reasonably 
be expected to materialise, and whether or not legal proceedings will be required to resolve them, the outcome is uncertain at this 
stage. Further detail is provided in note A3(e).

Nedbank structured financing
Historically the Group’s South African banking business entered into structured finance transactions with third parties using the tax base of 
these companies. Pursuant to the terms of the majority of these transactions, the underlying third-party has contractually agreed to accept 
the risk of any tax being imposed by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), although the obligation to pay in the first instance rests 
with the Group. It is only in limited cases where, for example, the credit quality of a client becomes doubtful, or where the client has 
specifically contracted out of the re-pricing of additional taxes, that the recovery from a client could be less than the liability that could arise 
on assessment, in which case provisions are made. SARS has examined the tax aspects of some of these types of structures and SARS 
could assess these structures in a manner different to that initially envisaged by the contracting parties. As a result the Group could be 
obliged to pay additional amounts to SARS and recover these from clients under the applicable contractual arrangements.

Nedbank litigation
There are a number of legal or potential claims against Nedbank and its subsidiary companies, the outcome of which cannot at present 
be foreseen. The largest of these potential actions is a claim in the High Court for R1.3 billion against Nedbank by certain shareholders 
in Pinnacle Point Group Limited, alleging that Nedbank had a legal duty of care to them arising from a share swap transaction.

During 2011 further actions were instituted against Nedbank by other stakeholders relating to this same issue. Nedbank and its legal 
advisers remain of the opinion that the claims are extremely ambitious and that the claimants will have great difficulty succeeding.

Nedbank securitisations
The Group through Nedbank uses securitisation primarily as a funding diversification tool and to add flexibility in mitigating structural 
liquidity risk. Nedbank currently has two active traditional securitisation transactions:

 ■ Synthesis Funding Limited (Synthesis), an asset- backed commercial paper (ABCP) programme launched in 2004; and
 ■ GreenHouse Funding (Pty) Limited, Series 1 (GreenHouse), a residential mortgage-backed securitisation programme launched in 

December 2007.

During October 2011 Octane ABS 1(Pty) Limited (Octane), a securitisation of motor vehicle loans launched in 2007, exercised its 
clean up call option. The remaining portfolio of securitised motor vehicle loans were acquired by Nedbank at fair value and the 
proceeds used by Octane to fully redeem all outstanding notes.

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Synthesis primarily invests in long-term rated bonds and offers capital market funding to South African corporates. These assets are 
funded through the issuance of short-dated investment-grade commercial paper to institutional investors. All the commercial paper 
issued by Synthesis is assigned the highest short-term RSA local-currency credit rating by Fitch, and is listed on JSE Limited.

Under GreenHouse Series 1, R2 billion of residential mortgages originated by Nedbank were securitised. The commercial paper issued by 
GreenHouse has been assigned credit ratings by both Fitch and Moody’s and is listed on JSE Limited. Fitch placed the GreenHouse 
commercial paper on rating watch negative as a result of changes it is effecting to its rating criteria for South African residential mortgage 
backed securities transactions. This process is ongoing. As the GreenHouse transaction was undertaken for funding and liquidity purposes, 
only the senior notes were placed with third party investors and the junior notes and subordinated loans to the special purpose entity were 
retained by Nedbank. The assets transferred to the special purpose entity have continued to be recognised as financial assets. GreenHouse 
continues to direct all capital repayments it receives on the residential mortgage portfolio to noteholders as a result of the stop purchase 
activated by a breach of the arrear trigger in 2010. The GreenHouse commercial paper is scheduled to be redeemed in November 2012.

The following table shows the carrying amount of securitised assets, stated at the amount of the Group’s continuing involvement 
where appropriate, together with the associated liabilities, for each category of asset in the statement of financial position:*

At 31 December

Loans and advances to customers 
Residential mortgage loans
Motor vehicle financing 

Other financial assets
Corporate and bank paper
Other securities
Commercial paper

Total

Carrying amount of assets

Associated liabilities

2011

2010

2011

2010

£m

116
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116
199
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431

165
59

155
327
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706

132
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–
–
320

452

171
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–
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*  The value of any derivative instruments taken out to hedge any financial asset or liability is adjusted against such instrument in this disclosure.

G7: Commitments
Capital commitments
The Group’s capital commitments are detailed in the table below. The Group’s management is confident that future net revenues and 
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At  
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Commitments to extend credit to customers
The following table presents the contractual amounts of the Group’s financial instruments not included in the statement of financial 
position that commit it to extend credit to customers.

Original term to maturity of one year or less
Original term to maturity of more than one year
Other commitments, note issuance facilities and revolving underwriting facilities

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At 
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At  
31 December 
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2,057
1,396
2,093

4,294
1,885
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Assets are pledged as collateral under repurchase agreements with other banks and for security deposits relating to local futures, 
options and stock exchange memberships. Mandatory reserve deposits are also held with local Central Banks in accordance with 
statutory requirements. These deposits are not available to finance the Group’s day-to-day operations.

Commitments under the Group’s operating lease arrangements are described in note G8.

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

G: Other notes continued
G8: Operating lease arrangements
(a) The Group as lessee

Outstanding commitments under non-
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as follows:

Within one year
In the second to fifth years inclusive
After five years

(b) The Group as lessor

Assets subject to operating leases

Land
Buildings
Investment property

At 31 December 2011

At 31 December 2010

Banking Non-banking

67
173
210

450

15
52
39

106

Total

82
225
249

556

Banking

Non-banking

68
233
292

593

35
97
70

202

£m

Total

103
330
362

795

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

10
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2,155

15
115
2,040

2,170

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

61
159
90

310

59
142
76

277

Future minimum lease payments of contracts with tenants

Within one year
In the second to fifth years inclusive
After five years

G9: Fiduciary activities
The Group provides custody, trustee, corporate administration, and investment management and advisory services to third parties 
that involve the Group making allocation and purchase and sale decisions in relation to a wide range of financial instruments. Those 
assets that are held in a fiduciary capacity are not included in these financial statements. Some of these arrangements involve the 
Group accepting targets for benchmark levels of returns for the assets under the Group’s care. These services give rise to the risk 
that the Group will be accused of misadministration or under-performance.

G10: Events after the reporting date 
On 18 January 2012 the Group redeemed the remaining €200 million of the €750 million Lower Tier 2 Bond which had not been 
repaid during 2011. On 3 February 2012 the Group issued a circular in respect of the proposed disposal of the Nordic business unit. 
Additional details have been provided in notes A2, H1 and H2. On 7 February 2012 the Group announced that it had sold Dwight 
Asset Management subject to certain conditions. On 22 February 2012 the Group announced that a preliminary non-binding offer 
had been accepted by Ecobank Transnational Incorporated for the acquisition of Oceanic Life. In March 2012 Bermuda enhanced its 
hedging strategy by implementing an option based hedging arrangement, with further detail provided in note A3(a). On 8 March 2012 
final regulatory approval was received in respect of the disposal of the Nordic business unit.

H: Discontinued operations and held for sale operations
H1: Discontinued operations
The results of the Group’s Swedish, Danish and Norwegian life businesses, collectively Nordic, and United States life business, US 
Life, are shown as discontinued operations in these financial statements. At 31 December 2011 the Group had entered into an 
agreement to dispose of the controlling interest in Nordic to Skandia Liv, which remains subject to shareholder approval for the sale. 
The disposal of US Life was completed on 7 April 2011 following regulatory approval, and has been reported up until that date.

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Analysis of the results is given below.

(a) Income statement from discontinued operations

Nordic

US Life

Total

For the year ended 31 December

Revenue
Expenses

Profit before tax from discontinued operations
Impairment on remeasurement to fair value less 

costs to sell
Loss on disposal
Realised available-for-sale investment gains and

exchange differences on disposal

Profit/(loss) before tax
Income tax (charge)/credit

Profit/(loss) from discontinued operations after

tax

2011

(421)
541

120

–
–

–

120
(52)

68

(b) Statement of comprehensive income from discontinued operations

For the year ended 31 December

Profit/(loss) after tax for the financial year
Other comprehensive income for the financial 

year

Fair value gains/(losses)

Available-for-sale investments
Fair value gains/(losses)
Recycled to the income statement
Realised on disposal

Exchange differences realised on disposal
Shadow accounting
Currency translation differences/exchange 

differences on translating foreign operations

Other movements
Aggregate tax on transfers from equity

Total other comprehensive (loss)/income for 

the financial year

Total comprehensive income/(loss) for the 

financial year

Attributable to
Equity holders of the parent

(c) Net cash flows from discontinued operations

Nordic

2011

68

3
–
–
–
–

(43)
10
(1)

(31)

37

37

2010

1,779
(1,729)

50

–
–

–

50
(65)

(15)

2010

(15)

(5)
–
–
–
–

157
14
–

166

151

151

2011

342
(330)

12

–
(29)

133

116
14

130

US Life

2011

130

48
(5)
(157)
24
(43)

–
–
3

(130)

–

–

2010

1,608
(1,557)

51

(827)
–

–

(776)
63

(713)

2010

(713)

530
(12)
–
–
(334)

29
(34)
(67)

112

(601)

(601)

2011

(79)
211

132

–
(29)

133

236
(38)

198

Total

2011

198

51
(5)
(157)
24
(43)

(43)
10
2

(161)

37

37

For the year ended 31 December

Operating activities
Investing activities

Net cash flows from discontinued operations

Nordic

US Life

Total

2011

1,609
(1,411)

198

2010

144
(404)

(260)

2011

2
146

148

2010

(167)
63

(104)

2011

1,611
(1,265)

346

£m

2010

3,387
(3,286)

101

(827)
–

–

(726)
(2)

(728)

£m

2010

(728)

525
(12)
–
–
(334)

186
(20)
(67)

278

(450)

(450)

£m

2010

(23)
(341)

(364)

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NOTES TO ThE CONSOLIdATEd  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

H: Discontinued operations and held for sale operations continued
H2: Disposal groups held for sale
The assets and liabilities of the Group’s Nordic business, Skandia Insurance Company Ltd (publ) (Nordic), comprising Old Mutual’s 
long-term savings and banking operations in Sweden, Denmark and Norway operating under the Skandia brand, are shown as held 
for sale in these financial statements. The Group has entered into an agreement to dispose of the controlling interest in Nordic to 
Skandia Liv which remains subject to shareholder approval for the sale. On 8 March 2012 final regulatory approval was received. 
Further detail has been provided in note A2.

In addition to the above the Group has agreed to sell the Finnish branch of Skandia Life Assurance Company Ltd, a part of Wealth 
Management, to OP-Pohjola osk and as a result of this the assets and liabilities of the Finnish branch have been classified as held for 
sale.

(a) Statement of financial position
Assets directly associated with disposal groups held for sale

At 31 December 2011

Assets
Goodwill and other intangible assets
Property, plant and equipment
Deferred tax assets
Investments in associated undertakings and joint ventures
Deferred acquisition costs
Reinsurers’ share of life assurance policyholder liabilities
Loans and advances
Investments and securities
Current tax receivable
Trade, other receivables and other assets
Derivative financial instruments – assets
Cash and cash equivalents

Total assets

Liabilities
Life assurance policyholder liabilities
Third-party interests in consolidated funds
Borrowed funds
Provisions
Deferred revenue
Deferred tax liabilities
Current tax payable
Trade, other payables and other liabilities
Amounts owed to bank depositors
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Total liabilities

Finnish  
branch

72
–
–
–
45
–
–
1,034
–
1
–
4

1,156

1,034
–
–
–
55
26
–
4
–
–

1,119

£m

Total

973
10
87
5
120
17
5,194
15,161
3
241
10
295

22,116

11,923
1,383
2
(54)
56
129
9
392
6,552
16

20,408

Nordic

901
10
87
5
75
17
5,194
14,127
3
240
10
291

20,960

10,889
1,383
2
(54)
1
103
9
388
6,552
16

19,289

Of the financial assets and liabilities included within disposal groups held for sale, namely the Nordic business and the Finnish 
branch, all are level one or level two in respect of the fair value hierarchy. In addition to the disposal groups held for sale, the Group 
had additional non-current assets held for sale of £22 million (2010: £7 million) and non-current liabilities of £9 million (2010: £nil).

Included within investments and securities is £185 million of short-term cash balances.

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(b) Equity attributable to equity holders of the parent directly associated with disposal groups held for sale

At 31 December 2011

Retained earnings
Available-for-sale investment reserve
Share-based payment reserve

Nordic

1,667
2
2

1,671

Finnish  
branch

37
–
–

37

£m

Total

1,704
2
2

1,708

At 31 December 2010 the assets and liabilities of the Group’s United States life business, US Life, were shown as held for sale in the 
financial statements, being £12,384 million and £12,219 million respectively. The disposal of US Life was completed on 7 April 2011 
following US regulatory approval. At the time of disposal the assets directly associated with US Life consisted of £10,518 million of 
investments and securities and £1,412 million of other assets, with liabilities at this time being £11,494 million of long-term 
policyholder liabilities and £235 million of other liabilities. Included within investments and liabilities was £565 million of short-term 
cash balances. 

H3: Contingent liabilities in respect of the disposal of US Life
Following completion of the disposal of US Life to the Harbinger group (‘Harbinger’) on 7 April 2011, the Group has retained certain 
residual commitments and contingent liabilities. These relate to sale warranties and indemnities that are typical in transactions of this 
nature including in respect of litigation (including class actions) and regulatory enforcement actions arising from events occurring 
before completion. The specific conditions are in effect for varying periods of time, the longest dated of which will expire on 31 
December 2015. The main elements are summarised below:

 ■ Harbinger intends to establish certain internal reinsurance arrangements which are subject to regulatory approval. In the event that 
regulatory approval of the full amount of reinsurance is not forthcoming there is potential for a reduction in the purchase price, up 
to a maximum of US$50 million.

 ■ US statutory regulations require reserving on a worst case scenario basis for deferred annuity policies that permit free partial 
withdrawals (‘CARVM Reserves’). As such there is redundancy when comparing the worst case scenario and the economic 
scenarios. These CARVM redundant reserves are currently reinsured from US Life to Old Mutual Reassurance until no later than 
the end of 2015. Old Mutual plc provides a $255 million letter of credit to back these redundant reserves. In the event that this 
letter of credit is drawn upon Harbinger are obligated to fully reimburse Old Mutual plc.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF ThE COMPANy 
COMPANy STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
At 31 December 2011

Assets
Investments in Group subsidiaries
Investments in associated undertakings
Other assets (including inter-company)
Derivative financial instruments – assets
Cash and cash equivalents 
Non-current assets held for sale

Total assets

Liabilities
Borrowed funds
Provisions
Other liabilities (including inter-company)
Derivative financial instruments – liabilities

Total liabilities

Net assets

Shareholders’ equity
Equity attributable to equity holders

£m

At
31 December
2011

At
31 December
2010

Notes

8

9

4

2

12

3

6

5

2

7,805
26
2,254
86
441
2,084

9,373
26
1,299
109
438
–

12,696

11,245

1,140
12
5,384
3

6,539

1,451
15
4,317
100

5,883

6,157

5,362

6,157

5,362

The Company’s financial statements on pages 232 to 240 were approved by the Board of Directors on 9 March 2012.

Julian Roberts 
Group Chief Executive 

Philip Broadley
Group Finance Director

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF ThE COMPANy 
COMPANy STATEMENT OF CASh FLOWS
For the year ended December 2011

Cash flows from operating activities 
Profit before tax
Fair value movements on derivatives and borrowed funds
Foreign exchange movements on assets and liabilities

Non-cash movements in profit before tax
Other operating assets and liabilities

Changes in working capital

Net cash inflow from operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Acquisition of interests in subsidiaries
Proceeds from sale and maturity of other investments
Other investing cash flow

Net cash inflow from investing activities

Cash flows from financing activities
External interest received
External interest paid
Inter-company interest paid
Dividends paid to

Ordinary equity holders of the Company
Preferred shareholders

Net proceeds from issue of ordinary shares
Net acquisition of treasury shares
Issue of subordinated and other debt
Subordinated and other debt repaid 
Loan financing repaid to Group companies

Net cash outflow from financing activities

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

Effects of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the year

Cash and cash equivalents at end of the year

£m

Year ended
31 December
2011

Year ended
31 December
2010

804
(62)
44

(18)
(123)

(123)

663

(12)
22
2

12

81
(144)
(37)

(58)
(44)
10
(17)
498
(837)
(125)

(673)

2

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438

441

152
270
30

300
(52)

(52)

400

(17)
–
22

5

58
(112)
(39)

(95)
(44)
9
(20)
–
(104)
(35)

(382)

23

1
414

438

At 31 December 2011 and 2010 all cash and cash equivalents were in the form of cash balances. During the year the Company 
recorded total dividend income from subsidiary undertakings of £2,911 million (2010: £650 million). 

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COMPANy STATEMENT OF ChANgES IN EQUITy
For the year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2011

Note

11

Attributable to equity holders of the
Company at beginning of the year 

Profit for the year 

Total comprehensive income for the 
year
Dividends for the year 
Merger reserve realised in the year
Shares issued in lieu of cash dividends
Net purchase of treasury shares 
Issue of share capital by the Company 
Exercise of share options 
Fair value of equity settled 

share options 

Attributable to equity holders of 

the Company at end of the year 

Year ended 31 December 2010

Attributable to equity holders of the
Company at beginning of the year 

Profit for the year 

Total comprehensive income for the 
year 
Dividends for the year
Acquisition of non-controlling interest 

in Mutual & Federal

Shares issued in lieu of cash dividends
Net purchase of treasury shares 
Issue of share capital by the Company
Exercise of share options 
Fair value of equity settled share options 

Attributable to equity holders of 

the Company at end of the year 

Millions

Number of
shares 
issued
and fully 
paid

5,695

–

–
–
–
99
–
–
7

–

Share  
capital

Share 
premium

Other 
reserves

Retained 
earnings*

Perpetual
preferred
callable
securities

570

–

–
–
–
10
–
–
–

–

795

2,708

–

–
–
(129)
–
–
–
–

601

838

838
(172)
129
114
(17)
–
–

12

–

688

44

44
(44)
–
–
–
–
–

–

–

–
–
–
–
–
5
5

–

£m

Total

5,362

882

882
(216)
–
124
(17)
5
5

12

5,801

580

805

2,591

1,493

688

6,157

Millions

Number of 
shares 
issued and 
fully paid

Share 
capital

Share 
premium

Other 
reserves

Retained 
earnings*

5,518

552

770

2,571

–

–
–

147
24
–
–
6
–

–

–
–

15
2
–
–
1
–

–

–
–

–
17
–
4
4
–

–

–
–

129
–
–
–
–
8

563

142

142
(95)

–
11
(20)
–
–
–

Perpetual 
preferred 
callable 
securities

688

44

44
(44)

–
–
–
–
–
–

£m

Total

5,144

186

186
(139)

144
30
(20)
4
5
8

5,695

570

795

2,708

601

688

5,362

*  Included within retained earnings of £1,493 million (2010: £601 million) are distributable reserves of £1,398 million (2010: £598 million).

Other reserves

Merger reserve
Share-based payment reserve

Attributable to equity holders of Company at end of the year

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At 
31 December 
2010

2,532
59

2,591

2,661
47

2,708

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF ThE COMPANy
NOTES TO ThE COMPANy FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011

1 Financial assets and liabilities
Company statement of financial position
The Company is principally involved in the management of its investments in subsidiaries, with its risks considered to be consistent 
with those in the operations themselves. Full details of the financial risks are provided in the consolidated financial statements, notes 
E1 and E2. The most important components of financial risk for the Company are interest rate risk, currency risk, liquidity risk and 
credit risk. These risks arise from open positions in interest rate, currency and equity products, all of which are exposed to general 
and specific market movements.

(a) Categories of financial instruments
The financial instruments of the Company consist of derivative assets and liabilities, both of which are treated as held-for-trading, 
other assets and cash and cash equivalents which are treated as loans and receivables, borrowed funds of which £637 million is 
designated as fair value through the income statement and £503 million at amortised cost (2010: £905 million and £546 million 
respectively) and other liabilities which are also measured at amortised cost. Of the financial assets and liabilities measured at fair 
value through the income statement, the hierarchy classification (as detailed in note E1(b) of the Group accounts) of derivative assets 
and liabilities is Level 2 and borrowed funds Level 1. 

(b) Capital risk management
Old Mutual plc is the holding company of the Group and is responsible for the raising and allocation of capital in line with the Group’s 
capital management policies set out in note E1 to the consolidated financial statements and for ensuring the operational funding and 
regulatory capital needs of the holding company and its subsidiaries are met at all times.

(c) Currency risk
The Company is exposed to effects of fluctuations in the prevailing foreign currency exchange rates on its financial position and cash 
flows through the impact that currency movements have on its derivative position and the investment in Försäkringsaktiebolaget 
Skandia (publ) classed as held for sale. The principal foreign currency risk arises from the fact that the Company’s functional 
currency is pounds sterling, whereas the functional currency of its principal operations is South African rand, US dollar, Swedish 
krona and euro. The exposure of the Group to currency risk is disclosed in the consolidated financial statements, note E1(e). The 
Company hedges some of this currency translation risk through currency swaps, currency borrowings and forward foreign exchange 
rate contracts. Exchange rate exposures are managed within approved policy parameters utilising forward exchange contracts and 
currency swap agreements. A 10% deterioration in the values of the major currencies the Company is exposed to in relation to 
pounds sterling would result in a decrease in the Company’s equity holders’ funds of £297 million (2010: decrease of £17 million).

(d) Credit risk
The Company is principally exposed to credit risk through its derivative asset positions, holdings of cash and cash equivalents and 
the ability of its subsidiaries to repay amounts due to the Company, which it holds to back shareholder liabilities. The exposure of the 
Group to credit risk is disclosed in the consolidated financial statements, note E2. Credit risk is managed by placing limits on 
exposures to any single counterparty, or groups of counterparties and to geographical and industry segments. Credit risk is 
monitored with reference to established credit rating agencies with limits placed on exposure to below investment grade holdings or 
the financial position of companies within the Group. Of the Company’s financial assets bearing credit risk, derivative assets and 
cash and cash equivalents are rated as investment grade (being AAA to BBB for Standard & Poor’s or an equivalent). The other 
financial assets bearing credit risk are not rated.

(e) Interest rate risk
Interest rate risk is the risk that fluctuating interest rates will unfavourably affect the Company’s earnings and the value of its assets, 
liabilities and capital.

The Company employs currency and interest rate swap transactions to mitigate against the impact of changes in the fair values of its 
borrowed funds. Details of the arrangements in place are shown in the Group Accounts note E7 (Hedge accounting).

(f) Liquidity risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that cash may not be available to pay obligations when due at a reasonable cost. Ultimate responsibility for 
liquidity risk management rests with the Board of Directors, which has built an appropriate liquidity risk management framework for 
the management of the Company’s short, medium and long-term funding and liquidity management requirements. The Company 
has net current liabilities of £1,582 million (2010: £994 million), all of which represent liabilities to other Group companies. The 
Company manages liquidity risk by maintaining adequate reserves, banking facilities and continuously monitoring forecast and actual 
cash flows of both the Company and its subsidiaries.

The key information reviewed by the Company’s executive directors and Executive Committee, together with the Capital 
Management Committee, is a detailed management report on the Company’s current and planned capital and liquidity position. 
Forecasts are updated regularly based on when new information is received, and as part of the annual business planning cycle.  
The Company’s liquidity and capital position and forecast are presented to the Company’s Board of directors on a regular basis.

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NOTES TO ThE COMPANy FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

Further information on liquidity and the Company’s cash flows is contained in other sections of this annual report, for example the 
business review and Group Finance Director’s statement. 

2 Derivative financial instruments
The following tables provide a detailed breakdown of the derivative financial instruments outstanding at the year end. These 
instruments allow the Company to transfer, modify or reduce foreign exchange and interest rate risks.

The Company undertakes transactions involving derivative financial instruments with other financial institutions. Management has 
established limits commensurate with the credit quality of the institutions with whom it deals, and manages the resulting exposures 
such that a default by any individual counterparty is unlikely to have a materially adverse impact on the Company.

Exchange rate contracts
Swaps 
Forwards

Interest rate contracts 
Swaps 

Total 

At 31 December 2011

At 31 December 2010

Fair values

Fair values

Assets

Liabilities

Assets

Liabilities

£m

30
–

30

56

86

–
3

3

–

3

90
–

90

19

109

89
11

100

–

100

In accordance with the Group’s hedging strategy the Group has entered into contracts pre and post year end to mitigate the  
foreign exchange risks attaching to the potential receipt, and subsequent distribution, of proceeds related to the sale of the  
Nordic businesses. The net cost of those contracts purchased in 2011 was recognised in the income statement for the year ended 
31 December 2011, with the market value not significant at the year end. On completion of the sale any profits and losses in relation 
to these contracts will be offset by currency losses or gains on the underlying assets.

The contractual maturities of the derivatives/liabilities held are as follows:

At 31 December 2011

Derivative financial liabilities

At 31 December 2010

Balance
 sheet
 amount

3

Less than
3 months

3

Derivative financial liabilities

100

100

More than 
3 months 
less than
 1 year

Between
 1 and
 5 years

More than 
5 years

No 
contractual 
maturity
 date

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

£m

Total

3

100

£m

At 
31 December 
2011

At
31 December
2010

503
637

1,140

546
905

1,451

£m

At
31 December
2011

At
31 December
2010

637
503

1,140

905
546

1,451

3 Borrowed funds

Senior debt securities and term loans
Subordinated debt securities

Total borrowed funds

Fair valued through income statement 
Amortised cost

Total borrowed funds

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3 Borrowed funds continued
The table below is a maturity analysis of liability cash flows based on contractual maturity dates for borrowed funds. Maturity analysis 
is undiscounted and based on year end exchange rates. In addition to the contractual cash flows detailed below, the Company is 
obligated to make interest payments on borrowed funds, details of which are in the Group consolidated financial statements in  
note E9.

Less than 1 year
Greater than 1 year and less than 5 years
Greater than 5 years

Borrowed funds

£m

At
31 December
2011

At
31 December
2010

167
503
470

1,140

462
817
536

1,815

Additional details of these borrowings and undrawn facilities are included in the Group consolidated financial statements in note E9.

4 Other assets

Other receivables
Corporation tax
Accrued interest and rent
Other prepayments and accrued income
Amounts owed by Group undertakings:
Amounts falling due within one year
Amounts falling due after one year

Total other assets

5 Other liabilities

Accruals and deferred income
Amounts owed to Group undertakings:
Amounts falling due within one year
Amounts falling due after one year

Total other liabilities

6 Provisions

Post employment benefits
Other 

Total provisions

£m

At
31 December
2011

At
31 December
2010

31
179
12
6

405
1,621

2,254

11
101
41
–

157
989

1,299

£m

At
31 December
2011

At
31 December
2010

28

59

2,711
2,645

5,384

1,692
2,566

4,317

£m

Note

7

At
31 December
2011

At
31 December
2010

11
1

12

 14
1

 15

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NOTES TO ThE COMPANy FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

7 Post employment benefits
The Company holds a provision in respect of the Old Mutual Staff Pension Fund Defined Benefit pension scheme, which provides 
benefits based on final pensionable pay for members within the Group. The assets of the scheme are held in separate trustee 
administered funds. Pension costs and contributions relating to the scheme are assessed in accordance with the advice of qualified 
actuaries. Actuarial advice confirms that the current level of contributions payable to the scheme, together with existing assets, are 
adequate to secure members’ benefits over the remaining lives of participating employees. The scheme is reviewed on a triennial 
basis. In the intervening years the actuary reviews the continuing appropriateness of the assumptions applied. During the year two 
employees (2010: two) were directly employed by the Company. The costs for these directors and ex-directors are disclosed within 
the Remuneration Report on page 119.

Liability for defined benefit obligations

Change in projected benefit obligation
Projected benefit obligation at beginning of the year
Interest cost on benefit obligation
Benefits paid
Actuarial losses

Projected benefit obligation at end of the year

Change in plan assets
Plan assets at fair value at beginning of the year
Actual return on plan assets
Benefits paid
Company contributions

Plan assets at fair value at end of the year

Net liability recognised in balance sheet
Funded status of plan
Recognised actuarial – gain/(loss)

Net amount recognised in balance sheet

Expense recognised in the income statement

Expected return on plan assets
Interest costs

Total

£m

Pension plans

Year to
31 December
2011

Year to
31 December
2010

62
3
1
(1)

65

47
5
(1)
4

55

10
1

11

61
3
(1)
(1)

62

41
4
(2)
4

47

15
(1)

14

£m

Pension plans

Year to
31 December
2011

Year to
31 December
2010

2
(3)

(1)

2
(3)

(1)

Actuarial assumptions used in calculating the projected benefit obligation are based on relevant mortality estimates, with a  
specific allowance made for future improvements in mortality which is broadly in line with that adopted for the 92 series of mortality 
tables prepared by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau of the Institute of Actuaries. The expected returns on plan assets 
have been determined on the basis of long-term expectations, the carrying value of the assets and the market conditions at the 
balance sheet date specific to the relevant locations. The detailed actuarial assumptions can be viewed on the Group’s website at  
www.oldmutual.com.

Plan asset allocation

Equity securities
Debt securities
Other investments

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%

Pension plans

Year to
31 December
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Year to
31 December
2010

35
63
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39
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8 Principal subsidiaries

Balance at beginning of the year
Acquisitions
Additions
Disposals
Impairments
Transfer to non-current assets held for sale

Balance at end of the year

£m

At
31 December 
2011

At
31 December
2010

9,373
12
2,501
(22)
(1,975)
(2,084)

7,805

8,993
22
358
–
–
–

9,373

On 14 March 2011, the Company transferred its investment of £22 million in Skandia Retail Europe Holding GMBH to Skandia Europe 
and Latin America Holdings in return for one £1 ordinary share in Skandia Europe and Latin America Holdings.

On 25 March 2011, the Company increased its investment in Old Mutual Wealth Management Limited (previously Skandia UK (Holdings) 
Limited) by £130 million.

On 30 June 2011, the Company received the investment in Skandia UK Limited of £1,835 million as a dividend in specie from 
Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (publ). On the same date, the Company impaired its investment in Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia 
(publ) by £1,835 million.

On 9 November 2011, the Company invested €25,000 in Old Mutual Europe GMBH.

On 25 November 2011, the Company increased its investment in the ordinary share capital of OM Group (UK) Limited by £500 million 
via a reduction in loan financing.

On 23 December 2011, the Company invested SEK131 million in Skandia Holdings Aktiebolag.

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During December 2011, the Company impaired the investments in Selestia Holdings Limited by £68.4 million, 
Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (publ) by £67 million and Commsale 2000 Limited by £2.4 million. The investment in 
Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (publ) has been impaired so that the carrying value is equal to the fair value less costs to sell in 
accordance with IFRS 5.

Also included within additions is the Company’s investment in subsidiary undertakings in respect of movements on the share-based 
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At 31 December 2011

Country of incorporation

Class of shares

% interest held

Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (publ)
Millpencil Limited
OM Group (UK) Ltd
Old Mutual Wealth Management Ltd
Skandia Europe and Latin America (Holdings) Limited
Old Mutual Europe GMBH
Skandia Holdings Aktiebolag

Sweden
England & Wales
England & Wales
England & Wales
England & Wales
England & Wales
Sweden

Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary

100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%

A complete list of subsidiaries is filed with the UK Registrar of Companies with the annual return. All the above companies have a 
year end of 31 December.

9 Investments in associated undertakings
The Company holds the following interest in associated undertakings:

Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance Limited

Country of 
operation % interest held

At
31 December 
2011

At
31 December
2010

India

26%

26

26

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NOTES TO ThE COMPANy FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

10 Commitments, guarantees and contingent liabilities

Commitments

£m

At
31 December
2011

At
31 December
2010

498

499

The commitments relate to letters of credit issued in support of the operations of a subsidiary company. Any liability arising from 
these letters of credit would be recovered from the subsidiary company.

In February 2008, the Company issued a guarantee to a third party over a subsidiary’s (Old Mutual Bermuda) obligations under the 
reinsurance contracts relating to the offshore investment products sold by a third party. The maximum payment under this guarantee 
is $250 million. This guarantee is accounted for as an insurance contract and payments will only arise should Old Mutual Bermuda 
be unable to meet its obligations under the relevant reinsurance contracts as they fall due.

11 Related parties
Old Mutual plc enters into transactions with its subsidiaries in the normal course of business. These are principally related to funding 
of the Group’s businesses and head office functions. Details of loans, including balances due from/to the Company accounts are set 
out below. Disclosures in respect of the key management personnel of the Company are included in the Group accounts related 
parties disclosures in note G3.

On 5 February 2010, the Company completed the acquisition of the remaining non-controlling shareholding in Mutual & Federal 
Insurance Company Limited. As part of the transaction, the Company sold its shares in Mutual & Federal Insurance Company 
Limited to OMLAC(SA) in a non cash transaction in return for novating Old Mutual plc loan notes totalling $234 million and it assumed 
the obligation for the discharge in 2015 of the unsettled share-based payment transaction with Mutual & Federal Black Business 
Partners for nil consideration. As a result of the sale of these shares, the merger reserve recorded in the statement of changes in 
equity of £129 million created on the acquisition of the holding in Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Limited has subsequently 
been released to retained earnings in the current year.

There are no transactions entered into by the Company with associated undertakings.

Balances due from subsidiaries
Balances due to subsidiaries
Balances due from other related parties – Fairbairn Trust Company Limited1

£m

At
31 December 
2011

At
31 December
2010

2,025
(5,357)
70

973
(4,087)
53

1. This represents amounts paid to the Fairbairn Trust Company Limited in respect of an ‘ESOP’ for the purchase of the Company’s own shares.

Income statement information

At 31 December 2011

Subsidiaries

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Interest  
received/ 
 (paid)

Ordinary  
dividends  
received/  

(paid)

Other  
amounts  
received/ 
 (paid)

66

2,9112

(76)

Interest 
 received/ 
 (paid)

88

Ordinary  
dividends  
received/  

(paid)

658

£m

Other  
amounts  
received/ 
 (paid)

(122)

2.  Dividends received during the year included £1,835 million from Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (publ), being the payment of a dividend in specie of its 

investment in Skandia UK Limited to the Company.

12 Non-current assets held for sale
As announced on 15 December 2011, the Group has agreed to sell its investment in Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (publ).  
As a result of this, the investment in Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (publ) has been classified as held for sale in the statement  
of financial position for the current year in accordance with IFRS 5. 

13 Events after the reporting date
On 18 January 2012 the Company redeemed the €200 million Tier 2 bond repayable 18 January (5%), exercising its option to redeem 
at the first call date.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
INdEPENdENT AUdITOR’S REPORT TO  
ThE MEMbERS OF OLd MUTUAL PLC
For the year ended 31 December 2011

We have audited the financial statements of Old Mutual plc for the year ended 31 December 2011 which comprise the Consolidated Income 
Statement, the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Consolidated and Parent Company Statements of Financial Position, 
the Consolidated and Parent Company Cash Flow Statements, the Consolidated and Parent Company Statements of Changes in Equity and 
the related notes which include the Reconciliation of adjusted operating profit to profit after tax. The financial reporting framework that has 
been applied in their preparation is applicable law and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the EU and, as 
regards the Parent Company financial statements, as applied in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

This report is made solely to the Company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 
2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company’s members those matters we are required to 
state to them in an auditors’ report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume 
responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company’s members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for 
the opinions we have formed.

Respective responsibilities of directors and auditors
As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities set out on page 126, the directors are responsible for the 
preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit, and 
express an opinion on, the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and 
Ireland). Those standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s (APB’s) Ethical Standards for Auditors.

Scope of the audit of the financial statements
A description of the scope of an audit of financial statements is provided on the APB’s website at www.frc.org.uk/apb/scope/private.cfm.

Opinion on financial statements
In our opinion:
 ■ The financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the Group’s and of the Parent Company’s affairs as at 

31 December 2011 and of the Group’s profit for the year then ended;

 ■ The Group financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU;
 ■ The Parent Company financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU and as 

applied in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006; and

 ■ The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and, as regards the 

Group financial statements, Article 4 of the IAS Regulation.

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Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion:
 ■ The part of the Directors’ Remuneration Report to be audited has been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 

2006; and

 ■ The information given in the Directors’ Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent 

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Matters on which we are required to report by exception
We have nothing to report in respect of the following:

Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in our opinion:

 ■ Adequate accounting records have not been kept by the Parent Company, or returns adequate for our audit have not been 

received from branches not visited by us; or

 ■ The Parent Company financial statements and the part of the Directors’ Remuneration Report to be audited are not in agreement 

with the accounting records and returns; or

 ■ Certain disclosures of directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or
 ■ We have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Under the Listing Rules we are required to review:

 ■ The directors’ statement, set out on page 126, in relation to going concern; and
 ■ The part of the Corporate Governance Statement on page 97 relating to the Company’s compliance with the nine provisions of the 

UK Corporate Governance Code specified for our review; and

 ■ Certain elements of the report to shareholders by the Board on directors’ remuneration.

Philip Smart (Senior Statutory Auditor) 
for and on behalf of KPMG Audit Plc, Statutory Auditor 
Chartered Accountants 
15 Canada Square  
London E14 5GL 
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STATEMENT OF dIRECTORS’ RESPONSIbILITIES 
in relation to the Market Consistent Embedded Value basis supplementary information

The directors of Old Mutual plc have chosen to prepare supplementary information on a Market Consistent Embedded Value  
(MCEV) basis. 

Old Mutual’s methodology adopts the Market Consistent Embedded Value Principles (Copyright © Stichting CFO Forum Foundation 
2008) issued in June 2008 and updated in October 2009 by the CFO Forum (‘the Principles’) as the basis for the methodology.  
The Principles have been fully complied with at 31 December 2011 for all businesses.

In preparing the MCEV supplementary information, the directors have:

 ■ Prepared the supplementary information in accordance with the methodology described above and the basis of preparation as set 

out on page 248;

 ■ Identified and described the business covered by the MCEV methodology;
 ■ Applied the MCEV methodology consistently to the covered business;
 ■ Determined assumptions on a market consistent basis and operating assumptions on a best estimate entity specific basis, having 
regard to past, current and expected future experience and to any relevant external data, and then applied them consistently; and

 ■ Where relevant, made estimates that are reasonable and consistent.

Julian Roberts 
Group Chief Executive 
9 March 2012 

Philip Broadley
Group Finance Director
9 March 2012

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MCEV
INdEPENdENT AUdITOR’S REPORT 
to Old Mutual plc on the Market Consistent Embedded Value basis supplementary information

We have audited the Market Consistent Embedded Value (MCEV) basis supplementary information (‘the supplementary information’) 
of Old Mutual plc (‘the Company’) on pages 244 to 285 in respect of the year ended 31 December 2011. The financial reporting 
framework that has been applied in the preparation of the supplementary information is the Market Consistent Embedded Value 
Principles issued in October 2009 by the European CFO Forum (‘the MCEV Principles’). The supplementary information should be 
read in conjunction with the Group financial statements which are on pages 127 to 231.

This report is made solely to the Company in accordance with the terms of our engagement. Our audit work has been undertaken  
so that we might state to the Company those matters we have been engaged to state in this report and for no other purpose. To the 
fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company for our audit work,  
for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Respective responsibilities of directors and auditors
As explained more fully in the Directors’ Responsibilities Statement set out on page 242, the directors have accepted responsibility  
for preparing the supplementary information on an MCEV basis in accordance with the MCEV Principles.

Our responsibility is to audit, and express an opinion on, the supplementary information in accordance with the terms of our 
engagement and having regard to International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to comply  
with the Auditing Practices Board’s (APB’s) Ethical Standards for Auditors.

Scope of the audit of the supplementary information
An audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the supplementary information to give reasonable 
assurance that the supplementary information is free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. This includes an 
assessment of: whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the Group’s circumstances and have been consistently applied 
and adequately disclosed; the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by the directors. In view of the purpose for 
which the supplementary information has been prepared, however, we did not assess the overall presentation of the supplementary 
information which would have been required if we were to express an audit opinion under International Standards on Auditing (UK 
and Ireland).

Opinion on the supplementary information
In our opinion, the MCEV basis supplementary information of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2011 has been properly 
prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the MCEV Principles using the methodology and assumptions as detailed in 
the basis of preparation of the supplementary information on page 248.

Philip Smart (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of KPMG Audit Plc, Statutory Auditor 
Chartered Accountants 
15 Canada Square 
London E14 5GL 
9 March 2012

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AdjUSTEd gROUP MCEV by LINE OF bUSINESS
At 31 December 2011

MCEV of the core covered business (Long-Term Savings)

Adjusted net worth*
Value of in-force business

MCEV of the non-core covered business (Bermuda)

Adjusted net worth
Value of in-force business

MCEV of the discontinued covered business (Nordic and US Life)

Adjusted net worth
Value of in-force business

Adjusted net worth of asset management and other businesses

Emerging Markets
Retail Europe
Wealth Management
US Asset Management
Nordic**

Value of the banking business

Nedbank (market value)
Emerging Markets (adjusted net worth)
Nordic (adjusted net worth)

Value of the general insurance business
Mutual & Federal (adjusted net worth)

Net other business*** 
Adjustment for present value of Black Economic Empowerment 

scheme deferred consideration****

Adjustment for value of own shares in ESOP schemes*****

Market value of perpetual preferred securities
Market value of perpetual preferred callable securities
Market value of subordinated debt

Adjusted Group MCEV 

Adjusted Group MCEV per share (pence)

Number of shares in issue at the end of the financial period less treasury shares – millions******

Notes

B3

B3

B3

A2(r)

A2(r)

A2(r)

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

5,713
2,204
3,509
66
187
(121)
1,433
285
1,148

1,955
499
14
165
1,270
7

3,286
2,935
29
322

294

175

270
117

(465)
(605)
(1,445)

10,794

194.1

5,562

5,913
2,228
3,685
287
403
(116)
1,315
720
595

1,939
289
14
171
1,461
4

3,603
3,275
–
328

409

42

266
85

(449)
(598)
(1,782)

11,030

202.2

5,456

* 
** 

*** 

Adjusted net worth is after the elimination of inter-company loans.
 Includes the adjusted net worth of Nordic holding companies that are classified as non-covered business, net of the holding companies’ investment in 
Group subsidiaries.
 Includes any other business that is not included within the main lines of business, largely Old Mutual parent company IFRS equity net of Group 
adjustments, consolidation adjustments in respect of intercompany transactions and debt, and Bermuda asset management.
 The effect of the acquisition of the minority interest in Mutual & Federal during 2010 has been included in this adjustment for the first time during 2011.

**** 
*****   Includes adjustment for value of excess own shares in employee share scheme trusts. The movement in value between 31 December 2010 and 

31 December 2011 is the net effect of the increase in the Old Mutual plc share price, the reduction in excess own shares following employee share grants 
in March 2011 and the reduction in overall shares held due to exercises of rights to take delivery of, or net settle, share grants during the financial period.  
The effect of the acquisition of the minority interest in Mutual & Federal during 2010 has been included in this adjustment for the first time during 2011. 

******  The 239 million treasury shares were cancelled on 13 January 2012.

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MCEV
AdjUSTEd OPERATINg gROUP MCEV 
STATEMENT OF EARNINgS
For the year ended 31 December 2011

Long-Term Savings
Covered business
Asset management and other business
Banking

Nedbank
Banking

Mutual & Federal

General insurance

US Asset Management
Asset management

Other operating segments

Finance costs*
Corporate costs**
Other shareholders’ (expenses)/income

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings before tax from core operations

Notes

B2

£m

  Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended 
 31 December 
2010

714
123
15

852

755

89

67

(155)
(43)
(18)

1,547

640
124
–

764

601

103

72

(183)
(46)
4

1,315

*  This includes interest payable from Old Mutual plc to non-core operations of £27 million for the year ended 31 December 2011 (2010: £55 million). 
**  Central costs of £14 million are allocated to the covered business and provisioned in the VIF (2010: £14 million) hence corporate costs under MCEV  

of £43 million differ from the IFRS amount of £57 million (2010: £60 million).

Commentary on key changes in the 2011 MCEV primary statements compared to 2010

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Bermuda reduction in MCEV
The closing MCEV balance reduced considerably as a result of unfavourable market impacts on the Variable Annuity Guaranteed 
Minimum Accumulation Benefit (GMAB) reserves.

Treatment of Nordic
On 15 December 2011, the Company announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell the assets and liabilities of its Nordic 
business unit to Skandia Liv for the sum of SEK 22.5 billion (£2.1 billion). This transaction is still subject to shareholder approval.  
The Nordic business unit has been classified as discontinued for IFRS reporting purposes, but continues to be included with full 
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The material components include the increased dividends paid to Group from business units and Group proceeds from the disposal 
of US Life, a reduced book value of debt component (due to repayment of debt) and inter-company loan movements.

Inclusion of other African businesses
The life businesses in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland and Zimbabwe do not calculate an embedded value, however they are 
included in the MCEV of the covered business (within Emerging Markets) at their IFRS NAV at 31 December 2011. The impact of 
these results on the Emerging Markets MCEV is noted in B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings. The asset management 
and Zimbabwean banking businesses are included within the Group MCEV at the IFRS NAV. The inclusion of the new African 
businesses increased the Adjusted Group MCEV by £203 million at 31 December 2011.

US Asset Management
Consistent with the Consolidated Financial Statements Note A2, comparative information in respect of the operating earnings and  
the value at period end has been revised in accordance with changes to presentation made in the current year. This has resulted in 
corresponding equal and opposite revisions to the ‘Other shareholder expenses’ and ‘Net other business’. The closing value has 
reduced significantly compared to prior year due to the goodwill write down of £264 million. See Note A3 (b) to the Consolidated 
Financial Statements.

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EARNINgS PER ShARE
For the year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings before tax

Covered business
Other business

Tax on adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings 

Covered business
Other business

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings after tax

Non-controlling interests

Ordinary shares
Preferred securities

Adjusted operating MCEV earnings after tax attributable 

to equity holders

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings per share*

Adjusted weighted average number of shares – millions

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings before tax

Covered business
Other business

Tax on adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings 

Covered business
Other business

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings after tax

Non-controlling interests

Ordinary shares
Preferred securities

Adjusted operating MCEV earnings after tax attributable 

to equity holders

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings per share*

Adjusted weighted average number of shares – millions

Core 
continuing 
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Non-core 
continuing 
operations

Discontinued 
operations

Notes

B2

B2

Notes

B2

B2

1,547
714
833
(364)
(162)
(202)

1,183

(255)
(62)

866

15.9

48
48
–
(1)
(1)
–

47

–
–

47

0.9

173
156
17
(31)
(28)
(3)

142

–
–

142

2.6

Core 
continuing 
operations

Non-core 
continuing 
operations

Discontinued 
operations

1,315
640
675
(288)
(118)
(170)

1,027

(217)
(62)

748

13.9

(28)
(28)
–
4
4
–

(24)

–
–

(24)

(0.4)

132
113
19
(26)
(21)
(5)

106

–
–

106

2.0

£m

Total

1,768
918
850
(396)
(191)
(205)

1,372

(255)
(62)

1,055

19.4

5,435

£m

Total

1,419
725
694
(310)
(135)
(175)

1,109

(217)
(62)

830

15.5

5,359

*  Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings per share is calculated on the same basis as adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings, but is stated after tax and 

non-controlling interests. It excludes income attributable to Black Economic Empowerment trusts of listed subsidiaries. The calculation of the adjusted 
weighted average number of shares includes own shares held in policyholders’ funds and Black Economic Empowerment trusts.

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gROUP MARKET CONSISTENT EMbEddEd VALUE 
STATEMENT OF EARNINgS
For the year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings before tax from core operations 
Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings before tax from Bermuda non-core operations

Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings before tax from continuing operations*
Adjusting items from continuing operations

Total Group MCEV earnings before tax from continuing operations
Income tax attributable to shareholders

Total Group MCEV earnings after tax from continuing operations
Total Group MCEV earnings after tax from discontinued operations**

Nordic
US Life

Total Group MCEV earnings after tax for the financial period

Total Group MCEV earnings for the financial period attributable to:
Equity holders of the parent
Non-controlling interests

Ordinary shares
Preferred securities

Total Group MCEV earnings after tax for the financial period 

Basic total Group MCEV earnings per ordinary share (pence)

Weighted average number of shares – millions 

£m

Year ended  
31 December 
2011

Year ended  
31 December 
2010

Notes

B2

C3

A4

1,547
48

1,595
(437)

1,158
(168)

990

(15)
–

975

674

239
62

975

13.1

5,136

1,315
(28)

1,287
395

1,682
(387)

1,295

165
227

1,687

1,429

196
62

1,687

28.2

5,064

*   For long-term business and general insurance businesses, adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings are based on long-term and short-term investment 

returns respectively, include investment returns on life fund investments in Group equity and debt instruments, and are stated net of income tax attributable to 
policyholder returns. For the US asset management business it includes compensation costs in respect of certain long-term incentive schemes defined as 
non-controlling interests in accordance with IFRS. For all businesses, adjusted operating MCEV earnings exclude goodwill impairment, the impact of 
acquisition accounting, option revaluations related to long-term incentive schemes, the impact of closure of unclaimed shares trusts, profit/(loss) on 
acquisition/disposal of subsidiaries, associated undertakings and strategic investments, dividends declared to holders of perpetual preferred callable 
securities, and fair value (profits)/losses on certain Group debt instruments.

**  For Nordic, these are composed of earnings before tax of £173 million (2010: £84 million), adjusting items of £(161) million (2010: £104 million) and tax of 

£(27) million (2010: £(23) million). For US Life, these are composed of earnings before tax of £48 million, adjusting items of £180 million and tax of £(1) million 
for the year ended 31 December 2010. Further detail relating to adjusting items can be found in section C3.

Reconciliation of movements in Group and Adjusted Group MCEV (after tax)

Opening Group MCEV
Adjusted operating MCEV earnings
Non-operating MCEV earnings

Total Group MCEV earnings
Other movements in IFRS net equity

Closing Group MCEV
Adjustments to bring Group 

investments to market value

Adjusted Group MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Covered 
business 
MCEV

Non-covered 
business 
IFRS

Notes

B4

C4

B1

7,515
727
(331)

396
(699)

7,212

–

7,212

2,386
328
(50)

278
(148)

2,516

1,066

3,582

Total 
 Group  
MCEV

9,901
1,055
(381)

674
(847)

9,728

1,066

10,794

Covered 
business 
MCEV

6,027
590
786

1,376
112

7,515

–

7,515

Non-covered  
business  

IFRS

1,602
240
(187)

53
731

2,386

1,129

3,515

£m

Total  
Group  
MCEV

7,629
830
599

1,429
843

9,901

1,129

11,030

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NOTES TO ThE MCEV bASIS 
SUPPLEMENTARy INFORMATION
For the year ended 31 December 2011

A: MCEV policies
A1: Basis of preparation
The Market Consistent Embedded Value methodology (referred to herein and in the supplementary statements on pages 244 to 285 
as ‘MCEV’) adopts the Market Consistent Embedded Value Principles (Copyright © Stichting CFO Forum Foundation 2008) issued in 
June 2008 and updated in October 2009 by the CFO Forum (‘the Principles’) as the basis for the methodology used in preparing the 
supplementary information. 

The CFO Forum announced changes to the MCEV Principles in October 2009 to reflect inter alia the inclusion of a liquidity premium. 
These changes affirm that the risk free reference rate to be applied under MCEV should include both the swap yield curve 
appropriate to the currency of the cash flows and a liquidity premium where appropriate. The CFO Forum is undertaking further work 
to develop more detailed application guidance.

The Principles have been fully complied with for all businesses as at 31 December 2011. The detailed methodology and assumptions 
made in presenting this supplementary information are set out in notes A2 and A3. Any reference made to US Life relates only to 
methodology applied at 31 December 2010.

Throughout the supplementary information the following terminology is used to distinguish between the terms ‘MCEV’, ‘Group 
MCEV’ and ‘adjusted Group MCEV’:

 ■ MCEV is a measure of the consolidated value of shareholders’ interests in the covered business and consists of the sum of the 

shareholders’ adjusted net worth in respect of the covered business and the value of the in-force covered business. 
 ■ Group MCEV is a measure of the consolidated value of shareholders’ interests in covered and non-covered business.  

Non-covered business is valued at the IFRS net asset value detailed in the primary financial statements adjusted to eliminate 
inter-company loans.

 ■ The adjusted Group MCEV, a measure used by management to assess the shareholders’ interest in the value of the Group, 

includes the impact of marking all debt to market value, the market value of the Group’s listed banking subsidiary, marking the 
value of deferred consideration due in respect of Black Economic Empowerment arrangements in South Africa (‘the BEE 
schemes’) to market, as well as including the market value of excess own shares held in ESOP schemes.

A2: Methodology
(a) Introduction
MCEV represents the present value of shareholders’ interests in the earnings distributable from assets allocated to the in-force 
covered business after sufficient allowance for the aggregate risks in the covered business and is measured in a way that is 
consistent with the value that would normally be placed on the cash flows generated by these assets and liabilities in a deep and 
liquid market. MCEV is therefore a risk-adjusted measure to the extent that financial risk is reflected through the use of market 
consistent techniques in the valuation of both assets and distributable earnings and a transparent explicit allowance is made for 
non-financial risks.

The MCEV consists of the sum of the following components:

 ■ Adjusted net worth, which excludes acquired intangibles and goodwill, consisting of:

 – free surplus allocated to the covered business; and
 – required capital to support the covered business.

 ■ Value of in-force covered business (VIF).

The adjusted net worth of the covered business is the market value of shareholders’ assets held in respect of the covered business 
after allowance for the liabilities of the in-force covered business which are dictated by local regulatory reserving requirements.

MCEV is calculated net of non-controlling shareholder interests and excludes the value of future new business.

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(b) Coverage
Covered business includes, where material, any contracts that are regarded by local insurance supervisors as long-term life 
assurance business, and other business, where material, directly related to such long-term life assurance business where the profits 
are included in the IFRS long-term business profits in the primary financial statements. For the life businesses in Kenya, Malawi, 
Nigeria, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, and where the covered business is not material, the treatment within this supplementary 
information is the same as in the primary financial statements (i.e. expected future profits for this business are not capitalised for 
MCEV reporting purposes).

The covered business does not include any business written in Skandia Liv. Skandia Liv is a mutual life insurance company within the 
Group. All assets and liabilities are wholly attributable to the policyholders of the mutual company. 

Some types of business are legally written by a life company, but under IFRS are classified as asset management because ‘long-
term business’ only serves as a wrapper. This business continues to be excluded from covered business, for example:

 ■ New institutional investment platform pensions business written in the United Kingdom as it is more appropriately classified as unit 

trust business; and

 ■ Individual unit trusts and some group market-linked business written by the asset management companies in South Africa through 

the life company as profits from this business arise in the asset management and asset administration companies.

The treatment within this supplementary information of all business other than the covered business is the same as in the primary 
financial statements, except for USAM where the value includes the allowance for the loan note from plc. The adjusted Group MCEV 
includes the impact of marking all debt to market value, the market value of the Group’s listed banking subsidiary, marking the value 
of deferred consideration due in respect of Black Economic Empowerment arrangements in South Africa (‘the BEE schemes’) to 
market, as well as including the market value of excess own shares held in ESOP schemes. 

(c) Free surplus
Free surplus is the market value of any assets allocated to, but not required to support, the in-force covered business. It is 
determined as the market value of any excess assets attributed to the covered business but not backing the regulatory liabilities, less 
the required capital to support the covered business.

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Required capital is the market value of assets that is attributed to support the covered business, over and above that required to 
back statutory liabilities for covered business, whose distribution to shareholders is restricted. The following capital measures are 
considered in determining the required capital held for covered business so that it reflects the level of capital considered by the 
directors to be appropriate to manage the business:

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 ■ Any other required capital definition to meet internal management objectives.

Economic capital for the covered business is based upon Old Mutual’s own internal assessment of risks inherent in the underlying 
business. It measures capital requirements on a basis consistent with a 99.93% confidence level over a one-year time horizon.

For Emerging Markets, Retail Europe and Wealth Management, capital determined with reference to internal management objectives 
is the most onerous and is the capital measure used, whilst for Nordic the regulatory capital requirement is the most onerous.  
For US Life, the required capital was based on the amount that management deemed necessary to maintain the desired credit rating 
for the Company, whilst for Bermuda the required capital is set with reference to internal management objectives, i.e. the adjusted 
net worth.

The required capital in respect of OMLAC(SA)’s covered business is partially covered by the market value of the Group’s investments 
in banking and general insurance in South Africa. On consolidation these investments are shown separately.

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SUPPLEMENTARy INFORMATION
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

The table below shows the level of required capital expressed as a percentage of the minimum local regulatory capital requirements.

Emerging Markets*
Retail Europe**
Wealth Management
Bermuda***
Nordic
US Life

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Regulatory 
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31 December 2011 results for Emerging Markets. 

**  Local regulators within many of the Retail Europe countries allow intangible assets to be included as admissible regulatory capital. In such cases the required 
capital reported for MCEV is net of these items, although each of the countries continues to be sufficiently capitalised on the local solvency basis. Skandia 
Leben in Germany is permitted under local regulations to include the unallocated policyholder profit sharing liability as admissible capital.

*** During December 2011, the BMA insurance (Prudential Standards) (Class E Solvency Requirements) Rules 2011 were formally signed into Bermudan law. The 
regulations allow for a three-year transition period for the new capital requirement (50% for financial year 2011, 75% for financial year 2012, 100% for financial 
year 2013). The required capital calculated on this statutory basis is approximately $120 million at 31 December 2011. We continue to calculate the required 
capital as the adjusted net worth held in the business as this exceeds the transitional capital. Capital for this business is managed at Group level on an 
economic capital basis. The Bermudan regulator allows intangible assets to be included as admissible regulatory capital. The movement in required capital is 
discussed further in Note B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings (after tax) for Bermuda.

(e)  Value of in-force covered business
Under the MCEV methodology, VIF consists of the following components:

 ■ Present value of future profits (PVFP) from in-force covered business; less
 ■ Time value of financial options and guarantees; less
 ■ Frictional costs of required capital; less
 ■ Cost of residual non-hedgeable risks (CNHR).

Projected liabilities and cash flows are calculated net of outward risk reinsurance with allowance for default risk of reinsurance 
counterparties where material.

(f)  Present value of future profits
The PVFP is calculated as the discounted value of future distributable earnings (taking account of local statutory reserving 
requirements) that are expected to emerge from the in-force covered business, including the value of contractual renewal of in-force 
business, on a best estimate basis where assumed earned rates of return and discount rates are equal to the risk free reference 
rates. It therefore represents a deterministic certainty equivalent valuation of future distributable earnings. The certainty equivalent 
valuation approach is described in more detail in note A3. Any limitations on distribution of such earnings due to statutory or internal 
capital requirements are taken into account separately in the calculation of frictional costs of required capital.

PVFP captures the intrinsic and time value of financial options and guarantees on in-force covered business which are included in the 
local statutory reserves according to local requirements, but excludes any additional allowance for the time value of financial options 
and guarantees. 

(g)  Financial options and guarantees
Allowance is made in the MCEV for the potential impact of variability of investment returns (i.e. asymmetric impact) on future 
shareholder cash flows of policyholder financial options and guarantees within the in-force covered business.

The time value of financial options and guarantees describes that part of the value of financial options and guarantees that arises 
from the variability of future investment returns on assets to the extent that it is not already included in the statutory reserves. The 
calculations are based on market consistent stochastic modelling techniques where the actual assets held at the valuation date are 
used as the starting point for the valuation of such financial options and guarantees. Projected cash flows are valued using economic 
assumptions such that they are valued in line with the price of similar cash flows that are traded in the capital markets. The time value 
represents the difference between the average value of shareholder cash flows under many generated economic scenarios and the 
deterministic shareholder value under the best estimate assumptions for the equivalent business. Closed form solutions are also 
applied in Europe provided the nature of any guarantees is not complex.

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(g)  Financial options and guarantees continued
The time value of financial options and guarantees also includes allowance for potential burn-through costs on participating 
business, i.e. the extent to which shareholders are unable to recover a loan made to participating funds to meet either regulatory or 
internal capital management requirements or the extent to which reserves are inadequate to cover severely adverse experience.

In the generated economic scenarios allowance is made, where appropriate, for the effect of dynamic management and/or 
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business. Such dynamic management actions are reflected in the valuation of financial options and guarantees provided that 
such discretion is consistent with established and justifiable practice taking into account policyholders’ reasonable expectations 
(e.g. with due consideration of the Principles and Practices of Financial Management, or PPFM, for South African business), 
subject to any contractual guarantees and regulatory or legal constraints and has been passed through an appropriate approval 
process by the local Executive team and, where applicable, the Board. Assumptions that depend on the market performance 
(such as crediting rates or bonus rates) are set relative to the risk free reference rates (subject to contractual guarantees) and 
assuming that all market participants are subjected to the same market conditions.

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 ■ Modelled dynamic management and policyholders’ actions include the following:

 – changes in future bonus and crediting rates subject to contractual guarantees, including removing all or part of previously 

declared non-vested balances where circumstances warrant such action;

 – dynamic persistency rates for the US Life and Bermuda businesses, and dynamic guaranteed annuity option take-up rates for 

the South African business driven by changes in economic conditions and management actions; and

 – changes in surrender values.

In determining the time value of financial options and guarantees at least 1,000 simulations are run to ensure that a reasonable 
degree of convergence of results has been obtained. Where deemed appropriate, the number of simulations is increased to reduce 
sampling error. 

Europe
Whilst certain products within the European businesses provide financial options and guarantees, these are immaterial due to the 
predominantly unit-linked nature of the business.

Emerging Markets
The financial options and guarantees mainly relate to maturity guarantees and guaranteed annuity options. 

As required by the applicable Actuarial Society of South Africa guidance note, the time value of the financial options and guarantees 
included in the statutory reserves in the Emerging Markets businesses as at 31 December 2011 has been valued using a risk-neutral 
market consistent asset model, and is referred to as the ‘Investment Guarantee Reserve’ (IGR). This reserve includes a discretionary 
margin as defined by local guidelines to allow for the sensitivity of the reserve to market movements, including interest rates, equity 
levels and the volatility implicit in the pricing of derivative instruments in these markets. This discretionary margin is valued in the VIF. 

US Life
The financial options and guarantees mainly relate to minimum crediting (bonus) rates.

Bermuda
The financial options and guarantees mainly relate to the guaranteed minimum accumulation benefits on Variable Annuity contracts.

(h)  Frictional costs of required capital
From the shareholders’ viewpoint there is a cost due to restrictions on the distribution of required capital that is locked in the 
Company. Where material, an allowance has been made for the frictional costs in respect of the taxation on investment return 
(income and capital gains) and investment costs on the assets backing the required capital for covered business. The allowance for 
taxation is based on the taxation rates applicable to investment earnings on assets backing the required capital, although such tax 
rates are reduced, where applicable, to allow for interest paid on debt which is used partly to finance the required capital.

The run-off pattern of the required capital is projected on an approximate basis over the lifetime of the underlying risks in line  
with drivers of the capital requirement. The same drivers are used to split the total required capital between existing business and 
new business.

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The allowance for frictional costs is independent of the allowance for the cost of residual non-hedgeable risks as described below.

(i)  Cost of residual non-hedgeable risks
Sufficient allowance for most financial risks has been made in the PVFP and the time value of financial options and guarantees by 
using techniques that are similar to the type of approaches used by capital markets. In addition the modelling of some non-
hedgeable non-financial risks is incorporated as part of the calculation of the PVFP (e.g. to the extent that expected operational 
losses are incorporated in the maintenance expense assumptions) or the time value of financial options and guarantees (e.g. dynamic 
policyholder behaviour such as the interaction of the investment scenario and the persistency rates). Residual non-financial risks 
include, for example, liability risks such as mortality, longevity and morbidity risks; business risks such as persistency, expense and 
reinsurance credit risks; and operational risk. All such risks for which no or insufficient allowance is made in the PVFP or time value of 
financial options and guarantees, together with some allowance for hedge risk and credit spread risk in the US Life and Bermudan 
businesses, are considered within the allowance for the CNHR. 

An allowance is made in the CNHR to reflect uncertainty in the best estimate of shareholder cash flows as a result of both symmetric 
and asymmetric non-hedgeable risks since these risks cannot be hedged in deep and liquid capital markets and are managed, inter 
alia, by holding risk capital. Considering the Group as a whole, most residual non-hedgeable risks have a symmetric impact on 
shareholder value with the exception of operational risk.

The CNHR is calculated using a cost of capital approach, i.e. it is determined as the present value of capital charges for all future 
non-hedgeable risk capital requirements until the liabilities have run off. The capital charge in each year is the product of the 
projected expected non-hedgeable risk capital held after allowance for some diversification benefits and the cost of capital charge. 
The cost of capital charge therefore represents the return above the risk free reference rates that the market is deemed to demand 
for providing this capital.

The residual non-hedgeable risk capital measure is determined using an internal economic capital model based on appropriate 
shock scenarios consistent with a 99.5% confidence level over a one-year time horizon. The internal economic capital model makes 
allowance for certain management actions, such as reductions in bonus and crediting rates, where deemed appropriate.

The following allowance is made for diversification benefits in determining the residual non-hedgeable risk capital at a business  
unit level:

 ■ Diversification benefits within the non-hedgeable risks of the covered business are allowed for.
 ■ No allowance is made for diversification benefits between hedgeable and non-hedgeable risks of the covered business.
 ■ No allowance is made for diversification benefits between covered and non-covered business.

The table below shows the amounts of diversified economic capital held in respect of residual non-hedgeable risks.

Capital held in respect of non-hedgeable risks

Emerging Markets
Retail Europe
Wealth Management
Bermuda
Nordic
US Life

Total

£m

At 
 31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

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147
684
335
290
n/a

751
115
622
274
362
678

2,264

2,802

During 2011 the methodology to calculate non-hedgeable risk capital was enhanced and standardised across all insurance business 
units in order to align with emerging Solvency II requirements. This enhancement has generally led to an increase in the non-
hedgeable risk capital in all business units, except for Nordic where it fell due to a significant reduction in the level of operational risk 
capital as a result of the rebate tax ruling in June 2011 (i.e. tax on rebates is no longer a risk component for operational risk). 

A weighted average cost of capital rate of 2.0% has been applied to residual symmetric and asymmetric non-hedgeable capital at a 
business unit level over the life of the contracts. This translates into an equivalent cost of capital rate of approximately 2.6% being 
applied to the Group diversified capital required in respect of such non-hedgeable risks.

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(j)  Participating business
For participating business in Emerging Markets, US Life and Bermuda, the method of valuation makes assumptions about future 
bonus or crediting rates and the determination of profit allocation between policyholders and shareholders. These assumptions  
are made on a basis consistent with other projection assumptions, especially the projected future risk free investment returns, 
established Company practice (with due consideration of the PPFM for South African business), past external communication,  
any payout smoothing strategy, local market practice, regulatory/contractual restrictions and bonus participation rules.

Where current benefit levels are higher than can be supported by the existing fund assets together with projected investment  
returns, a downward ‘glide path’ is projected in benefit levels so that the policyholder fund would be exhausted on payment of the 
last benefit.

(k)  Spread-based products
A market consistent valuation of spread-based products (such as Deferred Annuities in Bermuda, where investment returns are 
earned at one rate and policyholders’ accounts are credited at a different rate with the difference referred to as ‘spread’) is 
dependent on the extent that management discretion can target a shareholder profit margin and the decision rules that management 
would follow in respect of crediting or bonus rates in any particular stochastic scenario.

Where guaranteed terms are offered at outset of a contract that dictate the payments to policyholders throughout the term of the 
contract, these payments are valued using the certainty equivalent valuation technique. These products, for example immediate 
annuities in payment, may therefore show a loss at point of sale under MCEV as investment margins are not anticipated while 
currently pricing practice does anticipate these margins. If returns in excess of the risk free reference rates actually emerge in the 
future, these will be recognised in the MCEV earnings as they arise.

For business where the crediting (bonus) rate is set in advance, crediting rates are set by considering management’s target 
shareholder margins throughout the contract lifetime (subject to any guarantees). For other business, projected crediting rates are set 
equal to the risk free reference rates less the anticipated margin to cover profit and expenses (subject to any policyholder guarantees 
eroding the shareholder margins). However, during the period following the valuation date the existing crediting rate is applied until 
the next point at which it can be varied. Given the guarantees included within such products (including consideration of a 0% floor for 
crediting rates), stochastic modelling is used to value such contracts.

(l)  Valuation of assets and treatment of unrealised losses
The market values of assets, where quoted in deep and liquid markets, are based on the bid price on the reporting date. Unquoted 
assets are valued according to IFRS and marked to model. 

No smoothing of market values or unrealised gains/losses is applied.

(m)  Asset mix
The time value of financial options and guarantees and PVFP (where relevant) are calculated with reference to assets that are 
projected using the actual asset allocation of the policyholder funds at the reporting date. However, if the current asset mix is 
materially different to the long-term strategic asset allocation as a result of market movements, projected assets are assumed to 
revert to the long-term strategic asset allocation in the short- to medium-term as appropriate.

(n)  Defined benefit pension scheme
Where a defined benefit pension scheme within the covered business is in surplus or deficit on the liability basis that is used to 
determine future employer contributions, the employer pension fund expense assumptions incorporated within the VIF allow 
appropriately for the expected release of surplus or funding of the deficit.

(o)  Consolidation adjustments
The MCEV result split by business unit takes account of both sides of any loan arrangements between Group companies,  
with the Group effect included in net other business. 

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(p)  Look through principle
PVFP and value of new business cash flow projections look through and include the profits/losses of owned service companies,  
e.g. distribution and administration, related to the management of the covered business. Any profit margins that are included in 
investment management fees payable by the life assurance companies to the asset management subsidiaries have not been 
included in the value of in-force business or the value of new business on the grounds of materiality and because a significant 
proportion of these profits arises from performance-based fees.

(q)  Taxation
In valuing shareholders’ cash flows, allowance is made in the cash flow projections for taxes in the relevant jurisdiction affecting the 
covered business. Tax assumptions are based on best estimate assumptions, applying current local corporate tax legislation and 
practice together with known future changes and taking credit for any deferred tax assets.

The value of deferred tax assets is partly recognised in the MCEV. Typically those tax assets are expected to be utilised in future by 
being offset against expected tax liabilities that are generated on expected profits emerging from in-force business. MCEV may 
therefore understate the true economic value of such deferred tax assets because it does not allow for future new business sales 
which could affect the utilisation of such assets.

There was previously uncertainty around both the basis and effective date for possible taxation of fee income earned from fund 
managers by Swedish insurance companies and the expenses that can be relieved against such income. On 10 June 2011 the 
Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden delivered the final verdict stating that fund rebates are not taxable for corporate income tax 
purposes. We will therefore continue to treat fee income from our Swedish unit-linked business as being exempt from corporation tax 
within our MCEV.

The Emergency Budget of 22 June 2010 announced a reduction in the UK corporation tax rate by 1% per year for four years from the 
financial year beginning April 2011, ultimately bringing the corporation tax rate down to 24%. The Budget of 23 March 2011 
announced an additional 1% reduction to be enacted during 2011, bringing the ultimate tax rate down to 23%. The 31 December 
2011 MCEV results therefore reflect the 1% reduction to 26% enacted during 2011, as well as the further 1% reduction to 25% which 
is effective from April 2012 as this has been substantially enacted. 

The effect of the first reduction to 27% was included within the 31 December 2010 MCEV results (£4 million). A further £8 million is 
allowed for at 31 December 2011 as an assumption change relating to the tax rate reduction from 27% to 25%. The impact of the 
remaining future reductions from 25% down to 23% is estimated to be an MCEV profit of £8 million and this will be reflected once 
these future annual reductions are enacted.

A new dividend withholding tax system (replacing the current Secondary Tax on Companies (STC) system) will be introduced in 
South Africa effective from 1 April 2012. This is reflected in the results at 31 December 2011, i.e. no allowance will be made in future 
for the impact of the new dividend withholding tax in the MCEV, except for an allowance for withholding tax on the remittance of 
dividends to Old Mutual plc, as the actual level of taxation will depend on the legal nature of each shareholder. The Emerging 
Markets MCEV has increased by approximately R1,221 million (£105 million) while the value of new business for the year ending  
31 December 2011 has increased by approximately R104 million (£9 million). This has led to the average effective tax rate reducing 
from 33% to 28%.

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(r)  Value of debt 
Senior and subordinated debt securities are marked to market value (for IFRS reporting, debt is valued at either book value or fair 
value). The table below shows the comparison of debt on an IFRS and MCEV basis.

Debt securities

£350 million perpetual preferred callable securities 
€500 million perpetual preferred callable securities
US$750 million cumulative preference securities
R3.0 billion repayable 27 October 2015 (8.9%)
€2 million fixed rate note repayable December 2013 
US$16.5 million secured senior debt repayable August 2014 (5.23%)
€200 million (2010: €750 million) (4.5% to January 2012 and 

6 month EURIBOR plus 0.96% thereafter)*

£500 million repayable 3 June 2021 (8.0%)** – new
R100 million floating rate note repayable February 2011 (3 month 

ZAR-JIBAR-SAFEX plus 4.5%) – repaid

£300 million repayable 21 October 2016 (5.0%)** – repaid
£500 million euro bond repayable October 2016 (7.125%)***
US$50 million floating rate note repayable September 2011 

(3 month LIBOR plus 0.35%) – repaid

Value of debt

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Financial 
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E9

E9

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E9 (e)

H2 (a)

E9 (b)

E9 (e)

E9 (e)

E9 (b)

E9 (e)

E9 (e)

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458
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471

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342
465
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*  The principal and coupon on the bond were swapped into sterling and US dollars. 
**  The coupon on the bond was swapped into krona. 
***  This differs from the value in the Borrowed Funds note E9 (e) by the accrued interest at the end of the year, which is included within the book value of the 

debt in determining the MCEV market value uplift to maintain consistency and comparability with the market value.

Where either the principal or the coupon of the debt security has been swapped into an alternate currency, the mark to market value 
of these derivative instruments of £86 million (2010: £20 million) has not been included in the value of debt above, however it is 
included in the ‘Net other business’ value of £175 million (Adjusted Group MCEV presented per business line). Further information 
relating to the debt securities can be found in Note E9 in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

(s)  New business and renewals
The market consistent value of new business (VNB) measures the value of the future profits expected to emerge from all new 
business sold, and in some cases from premium increases to existing contracts, during the reporting period after allowance for the 
time value of financial options and guarantees, frictional costs and the cost of residual non-hedgeable risks associated with writing 
the new business.

VNB includes contractual renewal of premiums and recurring single premiums, where the level of premium is pre-defined and is 
reasonably predictable, and changes to existing contracts where these are not variations allowed for in the PVFP. Non-contractual 
increments are treated similarly where the volume of such increments is reasonably predictable or likely (e.g. where premiums are 
expected to increase in line with salary or price inflation).

Any variations in premiums on renewal of in-force business from that previously anticipated including deviations in non-contractual 
increases, deviations in recurrent single premiums and re-pricing of premiums for in-force business are treated as experience 
variances or economic variances on in-force business and not as new business.

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VNB is calculated as follows:

 ■ Economic assumptions at the start of the reporting period are used, except for OMLAC(SA)’s Non-Profit Annuities and Fixed Bond 
products and US Life products where point of sale assumptions are used (where applicable using economic assumptions at the 
middle of the reporting period as a proxy).

 ■ Demographic and operating assumptions at the end of the reporting period are used.
 ■ At point of sale and rolled forward to the end of the reporting period.
 ■ Generally using a standalone approach unless a marginal approach would better reflect the additional value to shareholders 

created through the activity of writing new business. 

 ■ Expense allowances include all acquisition expenses, including any acquisition expense overruns.
 ■ Net of tax, reinsurance and non-controlling interests.
 ■ No attribution of any investment and operating variances to VNB.

New business margins are disclosed as:

 ■ The ratio of VNB to the present value of new business premiums (PVNBP); and
 ■ The ratio of VNB to annual premium equivalent (APE), where APE is calculated as annualised recurring premiums plus 10% of 

single premiums.

PVNBP is calculated at point of sale using premiums before reinsurance and applying a valuation approach that is consistent with the 
calculation of VNB.

(t)  Analysis of MCEV earnings
An analysis of MCEV earnings provides a reconciliation of the MCEV for covered business at the beginning of the reporting period 
and the MCEV for covered business at the end of the reporting period on a net of taxation basis.

Operating MCEV earnings are generated by the value of new business sold during the reporting period, the expected existing 
business contribution, operating experience variances, operating assumption changes and other operating variances.

 ■ The value of new business includes the impact of new business strain on free surplus that arises, amongst other things, from the 

impact of initial expenses and additional required capital that is held in respect of such new business.

 ■ The expected existing business contribution is determined by projecting both actual assets and actual liabilities (including assets 

backing the free surplus and required capital) from the start of the reporting period to the end of the reporting period using 
expected real-world earned rates of return. The expected existing business contribution is presented in two components:
 – Expected earnings on free surplus and required capital and the expected change in VIF assuming that the assets earn the 

beginning of period risk free reference rates as well as the deterministic release of the time value of options and guarantees, 
frictional costs and CNHR; and

 – Additional expected earnings on free surplus and required capital and the additional expected change in VIF as a result of 

real-world expected earned rates of return on assets in excess of beginning of period risk free reference rates.

 ■ Transfers from VIF and required capital to free surplus includes the release of required capital and modelled profits from VIF into 
free surplus in respect of business that was in-force at the beginning of the reporting period, although the movement does not 
contribute to a change in the MCEV.

 ■ Operating experience variances reflect the impact of deviations of the actual operational experience during the reporting period 

from the expected operational experience. It is analysed before operating assumption changes, i.e. such variances are assessed 
against opening operating assumptions, and reflects the total impact of in-force and new business variances.

 ■ Operating assumption changes incorporate the impact of changes to operating assumptions from those assumed at the beginning 
of the reporting period to those assumed at the end of the reporting period. As VNB is calculated using operating assumptions at 
the end of the reporting period, this impact only relates to the value of in-force business at the end of the reporting period that was 
also in-force at the beginning of the reporting period.

 ■ Other operating variances include model improvements, changes in methodology and the impact of certain management actions, 

such as a change in the asset allocation backing required capital.

 ■ Total MCEV earnings also include economic variances and other non-operating variances.

 – Economic variances incorporate the impact of changes in economic assumptions from the beginning of the reporting period to 
the end of the reporting period (eg different opening and closing interest rates and equity volatility, increases in equity market 
values during the period) as well as the impact on earnings resulting from actual returns on assets being different to the 
expected returns on those assets as reflected in the expected existing business contribution. It therefore also includes the 
impact of economic variances in the reporting period on projected future earnings.

 – Other non-operating variances include the impact of changes in mandatory local regulations and legislative changes in taxation.

An analysis of MCEV earnings requires non-operating closing adjustments in respect of exchange rate movements and capital 
transfers such as those in respect of payment of dividends and acquiring/divesting businesses.

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(t)  Analysis of MCEV earnings continued
Return on MCEV for covered business is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV in local currency, 
except for Wealth Management, Long-Term Savings and total covered business where the calculations are performed in sterling.

The anticipated expected existing business contribution for the 12 months following the year ended 31 December 2011 (at the reference 
rate as well as in excess of the reference rate) is provided to assist users of the MCEV supplementary information in forecasting operating 
MCEV earnings. Note that the exchange rates that are used for such disclosure are the same rates that are used to translate current year 
earnings for comparability purposes, i.e. average exchange rates. Therefore the ultimate expected existing business contribution for the 
financial year ending 31 December 2012 may differ from these results.

(u)  Analysis of Group MCEV earnings
Presentation of Group MCEV consists of the covered business under the MCEV methodology and the non-covered business valued 
as the unadjusted IFRS net asset value, with the exception of USAM. A mark to market adjustment is therefore not performed for 
external borrowings and other items not on a mark to market basis under IFRS relating to non-covered business.

A3: Assumptions
Non-economic assumptions 
The appropriate non-economic projection assumptions for future experience (e.g. mortality, persistency and expenses) are 
determined using best estimate assumptions of each component of future cash flows, and are specific to the entity concerned, 
having regard to past, current and expected future experience where sufficient evidence exists (e.g. longevity improvements and 
AIDS-related claims) as derived from both entity-specific and industry data where deemed appropriate. Material assumptions are 
actively reviewed by means of detailed experience investigations and updated, as deemed appropriate, at least annually.

These assumptions are based on the covered business being part of a going concern, although favourable changes in  
maintenance expenses such as productivity improvements are generally not included beyond what has been achieved by the  
end of the reporting period.

The management expenses attributable to life assurance business have been analysed between expenses relating to the acquisition 
of new business, maintenance of in-force business (including investment management expenses) and development projects.

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 ■ The MCEV makes provision for future development costs and one-off expenses (such as those incurred on the integration of 

businesses following an acquisition, restructuring costs and costs related to Solvency II implementation) that relate to covered 
business to the extent that such project costs are known with sufficient certainty, based on three-year business plans.

 ■ Unallocated Group holding company expenses have been included to the extent that they are allocated to the covered business. 
The table below shows the proportion of future expenses attributable to the long-term business. The allocation of these expenses 
aligns to the proportion of the management expenses incurred by the covered businesses to the total management expenses 
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At  
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At  
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5
3
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28

17
3
6
4
2

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In line with legislation in Germany, a specified proportion of miscellaneous profits is shared with policyholders. The revenue on 
in-force business can be reduced by various expense items, including those costs arising in respect of new business acquisition 
expenses in any year. Skandia Leben in Germany therefore sets the best estimate assumptions for the amount to be shared with 
policyholders in future years after making an allowance for the acquisition expenses in relation to the new business expected to be 
written over the next three years. However note that, as previously mentioned, MCEV excludes the value of future new business.

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SUPPLEMENTARy INFORMATION
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

Economic assumptions
An active basis is applied to set pre-tax investment and economic assumptions to reflect the economic conditions prevailing on the 
reporting date. Economic assumptions are set consistently, for example future bonus or crediting rates are set at levels consistent 
with the investment return assumptions.

Under a market consistent valuation, economic assumptions are determined such that projected cash flows are valued in line with 
the prices of similar cash flows that are traded on the capital markets. Thus, risk free cash flows are discounted at a risk free 
reference rate and equity cash flows at an equity rate. In practice for the PVFP, where cash flows do not depend on or vary linearly 
with market movements, a certainty equivalent method is used which assumes that actual assets held earn, before tax and 
investment management expenses, risk free reference rates (including any liquidity adjustment) and all the cash flows are discounted 
using risk free reference rates (including any liquidity adjustment) which are gross of tax and investment management expenses. The 
deterministic certainty equivalent method is purely a valuation technique and over time the expectation is still that risk premiums will 
be earned on assets such as equities and corporate bonds.

(a)  Risk free reference rates and inflation
The risk free reference rates, reinvestment rates and discount rates are determined with reference to the swap yield curve 
appropriate to the currency of the cash flows. For Europe the swap yield curve is obtained from Bloomberg. For Bermuda the swap 
yield curve is sourced from a third party market consistent asset model that is used to generate the economic scenarios that are 
required to value the time value of financial options and guarantees. For Emerging Markets the swap yield curve is sourced internally 
(using market data provided by the Bond Exchange of South Africa) and is validated to the Bloomberg swap yield curve.

At 31 December 2011, no adjustments are made to swap yields to allow for liquidity premiums or credit risk premiums, apart from a 
liquidity premium adjustment to OMLAC(SA)’s Immediate Annuity business and Fixed Bond business. A liquidity premium adjustment 
is applied to OMLAC(SA)’s Fixed Bond business as OMLAC(SA) holds a portfolio of non-government bonds which have a market 
yield in excess of the risk free rate and the duration of the asset portfolio and the liability duration are a good match (meaning the 
asset portfolio is held to maturity). Cash flows on this product are also predictable and the company has adequate liquidity to 
withstand a substantial increase in lapses at all durations without having to sell bonds which further strengthens the case for 
applying a liquidity premium.

It is the directors’ view that a proportion of non-government bond spreads at 31 December 2011 is attributable to a liquidity premium 
rather than only to credit and default allowances and that returns in excess of swap rates can be achieved, rather than entire spreads 
being lost to worsening default experience. For OMLAC(SA)’s Immediate Annuity business the currency, credit quality and duration of 
the actual bond portfolios were considered and adjusted risk free reference rates were derived at 31 December 2011 by adding 
50bps of liquidity premium for this business (31 December 2010: 45bps) to the swap rates used for setting investment return and 
discounting assumptions. For OMLAC(SA)’s Fixed Bond products 50bps of liquidity premium was added to the swap rates. These 
adjustments reflect the liquidity premium component in non-government bond spreads over swap rates that is expected to be 
earned on the portfolios. In deriving the liquidity premia at 31 December 2011, we have reviewed emerging Solvency II matching 
premium guidance and a comparison of the yields of similar durations on South African government bonds and bonds issues by 
state-owned enterprises. At those durations where swap yields are not available, e.g. due to lack of a sufficiently liquid or deep swap 
market, the swap curve is extended using appropriate interpolation or extrapolation techniques.

The risk free reference spot yields (excluding any applicable liquidity adjustments) and expense inflation rates at various terms for 
each of the significant regions are provided in the table below. The risk free reference spot yield curve has been derived from 
mid-swap rates at the reporting date.

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Risk free reference spot yields (excluding any applicable liquidity adjustments)

At 31 December 2011
1 year
5 years
10 years
20 years

At 31 December 2010
1 year
5 years
10 years
20 years

GBP

EUR

USD*

ZAR

1.4
1.6
2.4
3.0

0.9
2.7
3.6
4.0

1.4
1.7
2.4
2.7

1.3
2.5
3.3
3.7

0.7
1.2
2.1
2.6

0.4
2.2
3.5
4.3

5.7
7.1
8.1
8.1

5.6
7.4
8.2
8.1

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SEK

2.1
2.3
2.5
2.1

2.3
3.3
3.7
4.0

*  For prior reporting periods, the risk free spot yields disclosed for USD were on a semi-annual par basis. The assumptions at 31 December 2011, as well as the 

comparative for the prior period, are now shown as annualised spot yields, consistent with other regions. 

Expense inflation

At 31 December 2011
1 year
5 years
10 years
20 years

At 31 December 2010
1 year
5 years
10 years
20 years

GBP

EUR

USD

ZAR

3.0
3.4
3.8
4.3

3.0
4.3
5.3
5.1

2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5

2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5

3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0

3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0

6.1
7.0
7.7
7.5

5.0
6.4
7.2
7.0

%

SEK

1.3
2.2
2.5
2.6

2.2
3.0
3.2
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Where cash flows contain financial options and guarantees that do not move linearly with market movements, asset cash flows are 
projected and all cash flows are discounted using risk-neutral stochastic models. These models project the assets and liabilities 
using a distribution of asset returns where all asset types, on average, earn the same risk free reference rates. 

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include the implied volatilities for each asset class and correlations of investment returns between different asset classes. For 
Bermuda, implied volatilities and correlations are determined for each global equity and bond index modelled.

The volatility assumptions for the calibration of economic scenarios that are used in the stochastic models are, where possible, 
based on those implied from appropriate derivative prices (such as equity options or swaptions in respect of guarantees that are 
dependent on changes in equity markets and interest rates respectively) as observed on the valuation date. However, historic implied 
and historic observed volatilities of the underlying instruments and expert opinion are considered where there are concerns over the 
depth or liquidity of the market. Where strict adherence to the above is not possible, for example where markets only exist at short 
durations such as the swaption market in South Africa, interpolation or extrapolation techniques and, where appropriate, historical 
data are used to derive volatility assumptions for the full term structure of the liabilities. Correlation assumptions between asset 
classes that are used in stochastic models are based on an assessment of historic relationships. Where historic data is used in 
setting volatility or correlation assumptions, a suitable time period is considered for analysing historic data including consideration  
of the appropriateness of historical data where economic conditions were materially different to current conditions.

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SUPPLEMENTARy INFORMATION
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

The at-the-money annualised asset volatility assumptions of the asset classes incorporated in the stochastic models are detailed below. 

ZAR volatilities*

Option term 

At 31 December 2011
1 year
5 years
10 years
20 years

At 31 December 2010
1 year
5 years
10 years
20 years

1 year swap

5 year swap

10 year swap

20 year swap

30.6
21.9
22.9
25.8

18.7
16.4
15.6
13.8

25.0
21.5
23.8
25.7

16.9
15.5
15.0
13.3

23.1
22.4
24.0
25.1

15.8
14.9
14.5
12.8

23.3
23.0
23.5
23.7

15.1
14.4
13.9
11.9

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return index)

27.6
26.7
26.6
29.3

23.4
25.5
27.0
27.8

*   Due to limited liquidity in the ZAR swaption market, the market consistent asset model has been calibrated by extrapolating swaption and equity implied 

volatility data beyond a term of one year and 5 years respectively for assumptions at 31 December 2011 (2 years and 3 years respectively for assumptions at 
31 December 2010).

Property index implied volatilities have been removed from the table above as they are no longer material to the Emerging Markets 
stochastic models. 

USD volatilities

Option term

At 31 December 2011 
1 year
5 years
10 years
20 years

At 31 December 2010
1 year
5 years
10 years
20 years

1 year swap

5 year swap

10 year swap

20 year swap

%

71.8
42.1
32.7
29.8

37.8
26.2
20.0
16.8

49.1
36.8
31.2
29.3

34.3
24.7
18.8
15.7

45.1
34.6
31.1
27.9

31.2
23.0
17.7
14.7

41.8
33.8
29.9
27.5

27.7
20.9
16.1
13.1

%

UKX

23.9
25.0
25.0

21.5
24.2
24.2

%

International equity volatilities (applicable to Bermuda)*

Option term 

At 31 December 2011
1 year
5 years
10 years

At 31 December 2010
1 year
5 years
10 years

SPX

RTY

EWZ

TPX

HSCEI

TWY

KOSP12

NIFTY

SX5E

25.0
27.8
27.8

21.5
23.6
23.6

n/a
n/a
n/a

28.1
32.6
32.6

35.9
34.8
34.8

n/a
n/a
n/a

26.7
28.0
28.0

26.7
28.3
28.3

31.5
32.3
32.3

27.8
32.3
32.3

26.1
25.0
25.0

21.5
25.5
25.5

25.1
24.6
24.6

21.4
24.0
24.0

25.6
25.2
25.2

22.0
26.6
26.6

27.2
25.3
25.3

24.3
25.2
25.2

International equity volatilities (applicable to Bermuda)*

Option term 

At 31 December 2011
1 year
5 years
10 years

At 31 December 2010
1 year
5 years
10 years

EEM

USAgg

EUAgg

APAgg

33.9
33.0
33.0

27.4
27.7
27.7

5.5
5.5
5.5

5.5
5.5
5.5

13.0
13.0
13.0

13.0
13.0
13.0

12.3
12.3
12.3

12.6
12.6
12.6

*   Long-term option implied volatility has been calibrated assuming a flat volatility term structure beyond 5 years due to limited data availability for some indices. 

The assumptions at 31 December 2011, as well as the comparative for the prior period are shown as the annualised volatilities applicable over the entire 
option term specified, consistent with the disclosure of volatilities for other regions. These volatilities, as represented by their Bloomberg codes, refer to the 
price indices. Due to ongoing enhancements in the fund mapping process, the indices referenced may vary from period to period. In the first half of 2011,  
a decision was made to remove the Russell 2000 Index (RTY) and add the MSCI Brazil Index (EWZ) which provides exposure to Latin America.

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(c)  Exchange rates
All MCEV figures are calculated in local currency and translated to GBP using the appropriate exchange rates as detailed in Note C2 
of the consolidated financial statements.

(d)  Expected asset returns in excess of the risk free reference rates
The expected asset returns in excess of the risk free reference rates have no bearing on the calculated MCEV other than the calculation of the 
expected existing business contribution in the analysis of MCEV earnings. Real-world economic assumptions are determined with reference to 
one-year forward risk free reference rates applicable to the currency of the liabilities at the start of the reporting period. All other economic 
assumptions, for example future bonus or crediting rates, are set at levels consistent with the real-world investment return assumptions.

Equity and property risk premiums incorporate both historical relationships and the directors’ view of future projected returns in each region 
over the analysis period. Pre-tax real-world economic assumptions are determined as follows:

 ■ The equity risk premium is 3.5% for Africa and 3% for Europe.
 ■ The cash return equals the one-year risk free reference rate for all regions.
 ■ The corporate bond return is based on actual corporate bond spreads on the reporting date less an allowance for defaults.
 ■ The property risk premium is 1.5% in Africa and 2% in Europe.

(e)  Tax
The weighted average effective tax rates that apply to the cash flow projections at 31 December 2011 are set out below:

Weighted average effective tax rates

OMLAC(SA)*
Namibia
Retail Europe
Wealth Management
Bermuda
Nordic

%

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

28
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25
8
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4

33
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27
11
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4

*   The reduction in weighted average effective tax rate for OMLAC(SA) from 31 December 2010 to 31 December 2011 is as a result of the new dividend 

withholding tax effective from 1 April 2012 as detailed in Note A2 (q). 

A4: Discontinued business
Disposal of US Life
On 6 August 2010, the Company announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell the assets and liabilities of its US Life insurance 
business to Harbinger Capital Partners for the sum of £215 million ($350 million) subject to regulatory approval. The sale was completed, following 
regulatory approval, on 7 April 2011. This transaction has resulted in an uplift of £451 million to the adjusted Group MCEV, as analysed below.

Adjusted Group MCEV uplift from disposal of US Life

Headline purchase price
Advisor fees and costs

US Life sale proceeds 
Retention of OM Re

Total proceeds from US Life disposal
Removal of US Life MCEV*

Adjusted Group MCEV uplift

Covered 
business

Other 
business

–
–

–
–

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182

182

215
(17)

198
71

269
–

269

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Total

215
(17)

198
71

269
182

451

*  The MCEV results for US Life include allowance for Old Mutual Reassurance (Ireland) Limited (OM Re).

The total earnings over the period are equal to the MCEV uplift, however we have not attributed these earnings to specific line items 
in the analysis of MCEV earnings.

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For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

B: Segment information
B1: Components of Group MCEV and Adjusted Group MCEV

£m

At  
31 December 
2011

At  
31 December 
2010

Notes

Adjusted net worth attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent

Equity
Adjustment to IFRS net asset value
Adjustment to remove perpetual preferred callable securities 

Value of in-force business

Present value of future profits
Additional time value of financial options and guarantees
Frictional costs
Cost of residual non-hedgeable risks

Group MCEV

Adjustments to bring Group investments to market value
Adjustment to bring listed subsidiary (Nedbank) to market value
Adjustment for value of own shares in ESOP schemes*
Adjustment for present value of Black Economic Empowerment scheme deferred consideration**
Adjustment to bring external debt to market value

Adjusted Group MCEV

C5

Group MCEV value per share (pence)

Adjusted Group MCEV per share (pence)

Number of shares in issue at the end of the financial period less 

treasury shares – millions

Return on Group MCEV (ROEV) per annum from core operations
Return on Group MCEV (ROEV) per annum from continuing non-core operations
Return on Group MCEV (ROEV) per annum from discontinued operations
Return on Group MCEV (ROEV***) per annum 

5,193
8,488
(2,607)
(688)
4,535
5,248
(136)
(243)
(334)

9,728

655
117
270
24

5,737
8,951
(2,526)
(688)
4,164
5,256
(433)
(276)
(383)

9,901

715
85
266
63

10,794

11,030

174.9

194.1

181.5

202.2

5,562

5,456

8.8%
0.5%
1.4%
10.7%

9.8%
(0.3)%
1.4%
10.9%

* 

 Includes adjustment for value of excess own shares in employee share scheme trusts. The movement in value between 31 December 2010 and 
31 December 2011 is the net effect of the increase in the Old Mutual plc share price, the reduction in excess own shares following employee share 
grants in March 2011 and the reduction in overall shares held due to exercises of rights to take delivery of, or net settle, share grants during the 
financial period. The effect of the acquisition of the minority interest in Mutual & Federal during 2010 has been included in this adjustment for the 
first time during 2011.

**   The effect of the acquisition of the minority interest in Mutual & Federal during 2010 has been included in this adjustment for the first time during 2011.
***  The ROEV is calculated as the adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings after tax and non-controlling interests of £1,055 million (2010: £830 million) divided 

by the opening Group MCEV. 

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Total 
covered 
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Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 
Markets

Retail 
Europe

Wealth  
Manage-
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Bermuda

Nordic

US Life

Total 
covered 
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Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 
Markets

Retail 
Europe 

Wealth  

Manage-
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Bermuda

Nordic

US Life

£m

B2: Adjusted operating MCEV earnings for the covered business

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted operating Group MCEV

earnings before tax

Tax on adjusted operating Group MCEV

918

714

468

earnings 

(191)

(162)

(119)

Adjusted operating Group MCEV

earnings after tax

727

552

349

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted operating Group MCEV

earnings before tax

Tax on adjusted operating Group MCEV

725

640

443

earnings 

(135)

(118)

(99)

Adjusted operating Group MCEV

earnings after tax

590

522

344

B3: Components of MCEV of the covered business

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted net worth

Free surplus

Required capital

Value of in-force

Present value of future profits
Additional time value of financial options 
  and guarantees
Frictional costs
Cost of residual non-hedgeable risks

Total 
covered 
business

 2,676

680
1,996

4,536

5,248

(136)
(243)
(333)

2,204

522
1,682

3,509

4,001

(14)
(236)
(242)

1,768

400
1,368

1,399

1,740

–
(218)
(123)

MCEV 

7,212

5,713

3,167

Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 
Markets*

Retail 
Europe

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted net worth

Free surplus

Required capital

Value of in-force

Present value of future profits
Additional time value of financial options
  and guarantees
Frictional costs
Cost of residual non-hedgeable risks

Total 
covered 
business

3,351

507
2,844

4,164

5,256

(433)
(276)
(383)

2,228

390
1,838

3,685

4,160

(12)
(261)
(202)

1,804

306
1,498

1,509

1,849

–
(240)
(100)

MCEV 

7,515

5,913

3,313

24

(5)

19

222

(38)

184

48

(1)

47

156

(28)

128

–

–

–

£m

68

(2)

66

129

(17)

112

(28)

4

(24)

65

(20)

45

48

(1)

47

£m

104

52
52

484

547

(12)
(8)
(43)

588

103

41
62

520

573

(10)
(11)
(32)

623

332

70
262

1,626

1,714

(2)
(10)
(76)

1,958

Wealth  
Manage-
ment 

321

43
278

1,656

1,738

(2)
(10)
(70)

1,977

187

–
187

(121)

36

(122)
(2)
(33)

66

285

158
127

1,148

1,211

–
(5)
(58)

1,433

–

–
–

–

–

–
–
–

–

£m

Bermuda

Nordic

US Life

403

–
403

(116)

145

(235)
(2)
(24)

287

186

51
135

1,318

1,397

–
(6)
(73)

1,504

534

66
468

(723)

(446)

(186)
(7)
(84)

(189)

Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 
Markets*

Retail 
Europe

Wealth  

Manage-
ment 

Bermuda

Nordic

US Life

*   The required capital in respect of Emerging Markets is partially covered by the market value of the Group’s investments in banking and general insurance in 

South Africa. On consolidation these investments are shown separately.

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B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings

Total covered business

Opening MCEV
New business value
Expected existing business

contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business
contribution (in excess of
reference rate)

Transfers from VIF and required

capital to free surplus

Experience variances
Assumption changes
Other operating variance

Operating MCEV earnings
Economic variances
Other non-operating variance

Total MCEV earnings
Closing adjustments

Capital and dividend flows
Foreign exchange variance
MCEV of acquired/sold  
  business

Closing MCEV

Return on MCEV (RoEV)% 

per annum

Year ended 31 December 2011 

Year ended 31 December 2010

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force 

507
(444)

2,844
187

3,351
(257)

4,164
490

MCEV

7,515
233

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force 

416
(485)

2,399
226

2,815
(259)

3,212
431

£m

MCEV

6,027
172

17

7

943
10
23
188

744
(221)
32

555
(382)
(243)
(75)

(64)

680

65

34

(236)
30
4
(205)

(121)
(22)
1

(142)
(706)
55
(312)

82

179

261

41

87

128

707
40
27
(17)

623
(243)
33

413
(1,088)
(188)
(387)

(707)
111
1
(57)

104
(214)
93

(17)
389
–
(306)

–
151
28
(74)

727
(457)
126

396
(699)
(188)
(693)

(449)

(513)

695

182

1,996

2,676

4,536

7,212

9.7%

9

7

899
(1)
(2)
(125)

302
224
(7)

519
(428)
(468)
40

–

507

89

27

(276)
6
2
74

148
23
25

196
249
–
249

–

98

192

290

34

174

208

623
5
–
(51)

450
247
18

715
(179)
(468)
289

–

(623)
71
(98)
(7)

140
521
–

661
291
–
291

–

–
76
(98)
(58)

590
768
18

1,376
112
(468)
580

–

2,844

3,351

4,164

7,515

Return on MCEV for total covered business is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV 
in sterling. 

9.8%

£m

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted 
 net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Experience variances
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Assumption changes 
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

40
20
43
(44)
21

27
21
–
(7)
13

111
84
4
13
10

1
40
8
(99)
52

151
104
47
(31)
31

28
61
8
(106)
65

5
7
22
(37)
13

–
(22)
19
(2)
5

71
57
(2)
5
11

(98)
(53)
12
(44)
(13)

76
64
20
(32)
24

(98)
(75)
31
(46)
(8)

£m

Expected existing business contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business contribution (in excess of reference rate)

Year ended 31 December 2012 

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force 

23

4

71

36

94

40

201

75

MCEV

295

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B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings (after tax)
The Long-Term Savings segment consists of Emerging Markets, Retail Europe and Wealth Management.

Long-Term Savings (LTS)

Opening MCEV
New business value
Expected existing business

contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business
contribution (in excess of
reference rate) 

Transfers from VIF and required

capital to free surplus

Experience variances
Assumption changes
Other operating variance

Operating MCEV earnings
Economic variances
Other non-operating variance

Total MCEV earnings
Closing adjustments

Capital and dividend flows
Foreign exchange variance

Closing MCEV

Return on MCEV (RoEV)% 

per annum

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

390
(390)

1,838
179

2,228
(211)

3,685
388

MCEV

5,913
177

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

289
(370)

1,470
154

1,759
(216)

3,079
375

£m

MCEV

4,838
159

14

7

748
(5)
9
33

416
23
(7)

432
(300)
(232)
(68)

522

60

10

(179)
32
4
(28)

78
(6)
–

72
(228)
55
(283)

74

137

211

17

569
27
13
5

494
17
(7)

504
(528)
(177)
(351)

40

57

(569)
103
27
(68)

58
(24)
96

130
(306)
–
(306)

–
130
40
(63)

552
(7)
89

634
(834)
(177)
(657)

1,682

2,204

3,509

5,713

9.3%

8

7

699
(46)
23
(49)

272
104
(24)

352
(251)
(283)
32

390

76

84

154

238

(3)

4

33

(184)
33
2
33

111
29
25

165
203
–
203

515
(13)
25
(16)

383
133
1

517
(48)
(283)
235

(515)
44
30
18

139
256
–

395
211
–
211

37

–
31
55
2

522
389
1

912
163
(283)
446

1,838

2,228

3,685

5,913

Return on MCEV is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV in sterling.

10.8%

£m

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted  
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted  
net worth

Value of 
 in-force

MCEV

Experience variances
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Assumption changes 
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

27
9
43
(37)
12

13
7
–
(3)
9

103
70
3
13
17

27
40
8
(77)
56

130
79
46
(24)
29

40
47
8
(80)
65

(13)
20
17
(56)
6

25
–
17
(2)
10

44
26
8
5
5

30
3
14
(2)
15

31
46
25
(51)
11

55
3
31
(4)
25

£m

Expected existing business contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business contribution (in excess of reference rate)

Year ended 31 December 2012

Free 
 surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted  
net worth

Value of 
in-force 

20

4

67

12

87

16

166

45

MCEV

253

61

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For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings (after tax) continued

Emerging Markets*

Opening MCEV
New business value
Expected existing business

contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business
contribution (in excess of
reference rate)

Transfers from VIF and required

capital to free surplus

Experience variances
Assumption changes
Other operating variance

Operating MCEV earnings
Economic variances
Other non-operating variance

Total MCEV earnings
Closing adjustments

Capital and dividend flows
Foreign exchange variance

Closing MCEV

Return on MCEV 

(RoEV)% per annum

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Free 
surplus

Required 
Capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

306
(189)

1,498
155

1,804
(34)

1,509
133

MCEV

3,313
99

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

80
(159)

1,225
134

1,305
(25)

1,158
111

£m

MCEV

2,463
86

11

2

359
28
1
(7)

205
1
(7)

199
(105)
(39)
(66)

400

58

10

(150)
24
4
(11)

90
8
–

98
(228)
51
(279)

69

105

174

12

18

30

209
52
5
(18)

295
9
(7)

297
(333)
12
(345)

(209)
50
1
(44)

54
23
100

177
(287)
–
(287)

–
102
6
(62)

349
32
93

474
(620)
12
(632)

1,368

1,768

1,399

3,167

11.9%

6

–

356
11
19
(6)

227
57
4

288
(62)
(93)
31

306

73

79

124

203

(3)

(3)

16

13

(166)
14
–
(2)

50
21
–

71
202
–
202

190
25
19
(8)

277
78
4

359
140
(93)
233

(190)
10
18
(22)

67
84
1

152
199
–
199

–
35
37
(30)

344
162
5

511
339
(93)
432

1,498

1,804

1,509

3,313

13.2%

£m

Return on MCEV is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV in rand.

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Experience variances
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Assumption changes 
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

52
25
39
(17)
5

5
7
–
(2)
–

50
31
(1)
8
12

1
48
–
(47)
–

102
56
38
(9)
17

6
55
–
(49)
–

25
29
11
(15)
–

19
–
17
2
–

10
5
7
4
(6)

18
2
(1)
15
2

35
34
18
(11)
(6)

37
2
16
17
2

£m

Expected existing business contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business contribution (in excess of reference rate)

Year ended 31 December 2012

Free  

surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted  
net worth

Value of 
in-force 

18

3

63

12

81

15

122

21

MCEV

203

36

* The MCEV for Emerging Markets is presented after the adjustment for market value of life fund investments in Group equity and debt instruments.

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Emerging Markets: Overview
New business: The new business value increased (compared to 2010) largely driven by very strong Mass Foundation Cluster 
sales volumes and an improvement in margins resulting from changes to economic and operating assumptions.
Operating earnings: The operating profits on the in-force book were driven by strong positive mortality and persistency 
experience variances.
Non-operating earnings and closing adjustments: The most material impact was caused by the rand depreciating against 
sterling, leading to a large negative foreign exchange variance. The changes to tax legislation in South Africa (in particular, the move 
to a withholding tax regime for dividends) account for most of the large one-off positive non-operating variance.

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The increase in the value of new business was largely driven by the increased sales of higher margin Mass Foundation Cluster 
business. Margins in general were impacted positively by operating assumption changes (mainly relating to persistency) and a more 
favourable economic basis. However, there were also offsetting negative impacts on margins resulting from a less profitable mix of 
business (more market-linked business sold relative to with-profit business). There was a small net negative impact on the value of 
new business from tax legislation changes. This was a combination of the negative effect of tax legislation changes affecting the 
Fixed Bond product and the positive effect of moving to a dividend withholding tax regime (increase to VNB of £9 million).

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The unwind of returns on the in-force business over 2011 was slightly lower than 2010. The lower unwind was the combined effect of 
the negative impact due to lower one-year risk free rates, offset by positive impacts due to a higher assumed real world expected 
return on cash and a higher opening MCEV balance on which the unwind is based.

Experience variances
Both mortality and persistency experience were very strong in 2011 and included a number of one-off items, leading to a significantly 
improved positive experience variance compared to 2010. The mortality variance was the result of exceptionally good experience in 
Retail Affluent, continued good experience in Mass Foundation Cluster and improved Corporate Segment experience. The persistency 
profits were improved by continued business efforts to improve retention. It should be noted that the experience variance includes 
ANW earnings of £14 million relating to the life business in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland and Zimbabwe as profits not modelled. 

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The small overall assumption change impact was the result of a number of different offsetting effects, particularly an improvement in 
the persistency basis (to reflect the good experience in recent years) and negative impacts from expense assumption changes, mainly 
the increased provision for project costs. Although mortality experience was very positive in 2011, no mortality assumption changes 
were made as the experience appeared unusually positive compared to recent years and was further boosted by one-off items which 
contributed significantly to the profit. The assumptions will be considered again in 2012 following a review of the experience.

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The negative other operating variance was the result of an increase in the CNHR resulting from implementation of a new economic 
capital model (alignment with Solvency II requirements) to determine non-hedgeable risk capital and the effect of other miscellaneous 
modelling changes.

Economic variances
Investment returns over 2011 were lower than 2010. The JSE SWIX index increased slightly by 1% over 2011 (compared with 18% 
over 2010). The year-end economic basis (mainly the swap curve) boosted MCEV. In aggregate, this had the impact of leading to a 
small positive economic variance.

Other non-operating variances
A new dividend withholding tax system (replacing the current Secondary Tax on Companies (STC) system) will be introduced in 
South Africa effective from 1 April 2012. The current STC tax allowance was removed from the embedded value models, resulting in 
an increase in VIF. This was offset by an allowance for dividend withholding tax on remittance of dividends to Old Mutual plc. The 
overall effect is a material increase in the net of tax VIF of £105 million.

Capital and dividend flows
This includes a large one-off positive effect of £69 million for the inclusion of the opening ANW for the life businesses in Kenya, 
Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland and Zimbabwe which are included in Emerging Markets for the first time in 2011, with any foreign 
exchange movement on this balance allocated as a foreign exchange variance. This is largely offset by dividends paid.

Foreign exchange effects
The large negative effect was caused by the 18% depreciation in the rand against sterling applied to the MCEV closing balance.  
The majority of Emerging Market’s MCEV earnings are rand denominated, and the volatility of the rand against sterling is largely 
unhedged. Hence, all the line items shown in the analysis of covered business MCEV earnings are also implicitly impacted by 
movements in the rand against sterling.

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Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Free 
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Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

Free 
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Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
In-force

Retail Europe

Opening MCEV
New business value
Expected existing business

contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business
contribution (in excess of
reference rate)

Transfers from VIF and required

capital to free surplus

Experience variances
Assumption changes
Other operating variance

Operating MCEV earnings
Economic variances
Other non-operating variance

Total MCEV earnings
Closing adjustments

Capital and dividend flows
Foreign exchange variance

Closing MCEV

Return on MCEV (RoEV)% 

per annum

41
(73)

1

–

93
3
–
6

30
2
–

32
(21)
(19)
(2)

52

62
1

–

–

1
–
–
(6)

(4)
(4)
–

(8)
(2)
–
(2)

103
(72)

520
80

1

–

94
3
–
–

26
(2)
–

24
(23)
(19)
(4)

8

5

(94)
(3)
2
(5)

(7)
(13)
–

(20)
(16)
–
(16)

MCEV

623
8

9

5

–
–
2
(5)

19
(15)
–

4
(39)
(19)
(20)

52

104

484

588

3.0%

£m

MCEV

531
7

9

3

–
5
11
31

66
22
(6)

82
10
(6)
16

46
(69)

1

–

97
5
–
(9)

25
1
(26)

–
(5)
(6)
1

41

32
1

–

–

2
(1)
–
–

2
2
25

29
1
–
1

62

78
(68)

453
75

1

–

99
4
–
(9)

27
3
(1)

29
(4)
(6)
2

8

3

(99)
1
11
40

39
19
(5)

53
14
–
14

103

520

623

12.8%

£m

Return on MCEV is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV in euro.

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted  
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted 
 net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Experience variances
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Assumption changes 
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

3
(2)
3
(3)
5

–
–
–
–
–

(3)
3
2
–
(8)

2
(2)
–
5
(1)

–
1
5
(3)
(3)

2
(2)
–
5
(1)

4
(2)
3
(3)
6

–
–
–
–
–

1
3
–
–
(2)

11
9
–
(4)
6

5
1
3
(3)
4

11
9
–
(4)
6

£m

Expected existing business contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business contribution (in excess of reference rate)

Year ended 31 December 2012

Free  

surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted  
net worth

Value of 
in-force 

–

1

1

–

1

1

11

3

MCEV

12

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Retail Europe: Overview
Operating earnings: The operating profits on the in-force book were mainly driven by new business contribution and the 
expected unwind of the MCEV.
Non-operating earnings and closing adjustments: The most material impacts are as a result of the negative economic 
variances, largely due to reduced fund returns, and the foreign exchange variance as a result of the depreciation of the euro  
against sterling.

New business
The value of new business has increased due to higher sales volumes in Poland and Switzerland. Margins have also increased as  
a result of positive volume effects, driven by a decrease in acquisition expense overruns in Switzerland, and favourable economic 
assumption changes.

Expected existing business contribution
The expected existing business contribution is in line with 2010.

Experience variances
The most significant experience variance is in respect of mortality risk. This is partially offset by adverse expense variances due to 
higher overhead expenses. 

Operating assumption changes
The most significant operating assumption change relates to the lowering of expense assumptions as a result of refinements to the 
allocation of Retail Europe overhead expenses to individual insurance entities. 

Other operating variances 
The negative other operating variance mainly relates to a change in methodology used to calculate CNHR to align with  
Solvency II requirements.

Economic variances
There was a large negative investment return variance on the VIF mainly due to the effect of negative market developments  
and poor fund returns over 2011. This was partially offset by a positive impact due to the reduction in swap rates across all Retail 
Europe currencies.

Capital and dividend flows
The main capital flow relates to a significant dividend paid from the covered business to Old Mutual plc.

Foreign exchange effects
The foreign exchange variance is mainly due to unfavourable exchange rate movements on translation as a result of the euro 
depreciating against sterling.

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Wealth Management

Opening MCEV
New business value
Expected existing business

contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business
contribution (in excess of
reference rate) 

Transfers from VIF and required

capital to free surplus

Experience variances
Assumption changes
Other operating variance

Operating MCEV earnings
Economic variances
Other non-operating variance

Total MCEV earnings
Closing adjustments

Capital and dividend flows
Foreign exchange variance

Closing MCEV

Return on MCEV (RoEV)% 

per annum

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

43
(128)

278
23

321
(105)

1,656
175

MCEV

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Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
In-force

163
(142)

213
19

376
(123)

1,468
189

2

5

296
(36)
8
34

181
20
–

201
(174)
(174)
–

70

2

–

(30)
8
–
(11)

(8)
(10)
–

(18)
2
4
(2)

262

4

5

266
(28)
8
23

173
10
–

183
(172)
(170)
(2)

332

24

17

(266)
56
24
(19)

11
(34)
(4)

(27)
(3)
–
(3)

28

22

–
28
32
4

184
(24)
(4)

156
(175)
(170)
(5)

1,626

1,958

9.3%

1

7

246
(62)
4
(34)

20
46
(2)

64
(184)
(184)
–

43

3

–

(20)
20
2
35

59
6
–

65
–
–
–

278

4

7

226
(42)
6
1

79
52
(2)

129
(184)
(184)
–

321

22

14

(226)
33
1
–

33
153
4

190
(2)
–
(2)

Return on MCEV is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV in sterling.

£m

MCEV

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26

21

–
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7
1

112
205
2

319
(186)
(184)
(2)

1,656

1,977

6.1%

£m

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted 
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Value of 
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MCEV

Adjusted 
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Value of 
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MCEV

Experience variances
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Assumption changes 
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

(28)
(14)
1
(17)
2

8
–
–
(1)
9

56
36
2
5
13

24
(6)
8
(35)
57

28
22
3
(12)
15

32
(6)
8
(36)
66

(42)
(7)
3
(38)
–

6
–
–
(4)
10

33
18
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13

1
(8)
15
(13)
7

(9)
11
4
(37)
13

7
(8)
15
(17)
17

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Expected existing business contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business contribution (in excess of reference rate)

Year ended 31 December 2012

Free  

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Required 
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Adjusted 
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Value of 
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2

–

3

–

5

–

33

21

MCEV

38

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Wealth Management: Overview
New business: The new business value increased (compared to 2010) largely driven by a change in business mix and assumption 
changes. Sales volumes were below 2010 levels for all Wealth Management businesses, except for the UK Platform which saw 2% 
year-on-year growth.
Operating earnings: The operating profits on the in-force book were driven by the expected unwind of the MCEV, favourable 
rebate assumption changes, and strong positive rebate, persistency and mortality experience variances. 
Non-operating earnings and closing adjustments: The most material impact below the line was the capital returned to Group 
during the year and foreign exchange variances due to funds held in non-sterling denominations.

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The increase in the value of new business was largely due to the lower internal acquisition costs following a cost reduction 
programme, together with the higher rebate and improved persistency assumptions. Margins in general were impacted positively by 
external factors, in particular the more favourable economic basis. However, there were also offsetting negative impacts on margins 
resulting from lower volumes.

Expected existing business contribution
The expected existing business contribution (in excess of reference rate) is not significant on the required capital portion of the business as 
shareholder assets backing capital requirements are typically invested in highly secure government paper and other short-term instruments. 

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Rebate, persistency and mortality experience was strong in 2011 leading to a positive experience variance compared to 2010. The 
persistency variance was as a result of assumptions made for the anticipated impacts of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR)* that have yet 
to emerge on Legacy business in the UK. The adverse expense experience was due to one-off variances relating to software development. 
Maintenance expenses have come under pressure due to lower than assumed sales on UK Platform and a changing mix of business.

Operating assumption changes
Assumptions changes were generally favourable with the release of margins on rebates following strong recent experience and more 
clarity from the FSA regarding the future treatment of rebates. Positive mortality experience led to favourable assumption changes, 
offset by the adverse expense and persistency assumption changes.

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The other operating variance was the result of some large offsetting items. Modelling changes include the impact of a move to a 50th 
percentile best estimate basis** offset by an associated move to more granular persistency modelling techniques giving an overall 
impact of £(13) million. Other operating variances also include the results of modelling improvements for the Platform business 
following a migration of valuation models (£14 million); an increase in the CNHR resulting from implementation of the 50th percentile 
best estimate basis; and the effect of other miscellaneous modelling changes.

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Investment returns over 2011 were lower than 2010 due to reduced fund growth as a result of the fall in equity markets. The tax 
position of the Legacy business resulted in large deemed disposal losses. These were partially offset by a reduction in the effective 
tax rate in the UK businesses and in International’s Finnish operation and a positive contribution from lower swap rates in 2011.

Other non-operating variances
Other non-operating variances include the benefit of reductions in headline UK corporation tax. The Emergency Budget of 22 June 
2010 announced that the UK’s mainstream corporation tax rate would be reduced from its current level of 28% down to 24% in 
annual 1% steps. The first reduction to 27% was included within the full-year 2010 results. In the 23 March 2011 Budget speech an 
additional 1% reduction, to come into effect during 2011, was announced. The further reduction to 25% (effective from April 2012) 
has also been allowed for and the impact of the 2% reduction to 25% is £8 million.

Capital and dividend flows
The capital and dividend flows mainly represent dividends, repayments of loans and capital injections.

Foreign exchange effects
The negative effect was caused by the depreciation of the euro and Swiss franc against sterling.

*   Retail Distribution Review (RDR): The RDR is an FSA consumer protection initiative which aims to drive structural change in the retail investments industry to 

give consumers confidence that the advice they are given, and products they are sold, are best suited to their needs. Whilst the regulations will not be in force 
until 1 January 2013 the market is already starting to change. The exact impact of the RDR is still uncertain and assumption changes include an allowance for 
expected worsening persistency experience in 2012 and 2013 because of the RDR impacts. 

**  Modelling changes to allow for 50th percentile best estimate basis: Traditionally the Group MCEV methodology has allowed assumptions to incorporate a 

margin over the 50th percentile (best estimate) where this could be justified on the grounds of modelling uncertainty of the best estimate. In preparation for 
full Solvency II implementation, a revised group-wide MCEV approach is being phased in. The approach requires the release of margins when calculating 
MCEV on a true best estimate basis. 

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SUPPLEMENTARy INFORMATION
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings (after tax) continued

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Free 
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Required 
Capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
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Free 
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Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
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Bermuda

Opening MCEV
New business value
Expected existing business

contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business
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reference rate) 

Transfers from VIF and required

capital to free surplus

Experience variances
Assumption changes
Other operating variance

Operating MCEV earnings
Economic variances
Other non-operating variance

Total MCEV earnings
Closing adjustments

Capital and dividend flows
Foreign exchange variance

Closing MCEV

Return on MCEV (RoEV)% 

per annum

–
–

–

–

66
16
14
155

251
(251)
–

–
–
–
–

–

403
–

2

403
–

2

MCEV

287
–

(116)
–

6

8

24

24

14

(57)
(1)
–
(177)

(209)
–
–

(209)
(7)
–
(7)

187

9
15
14
(22)

42
(251)
–

(209)
(7)
–
(7)

187

(9)
9
(22)
7

5
(10)
–

(5)
–
–
–

(121)

38

–
24
(8)
(15)

47
(261)
–

(214)
(7)
–
(7)

66

17.0%

363
–

3

30

(45)
1
–
37

26
–
–

26
14
–
14

363
–

3

30

(29)
(17)
(19)
5

(27)
53
–

26
14
–
14

(165)
–

9

35

29
(2)
(16)
(52)

3
52
–

55
(6)
–
(6)

–
–

–

–

16
(18)
(19)
(32)

(53)
53
–

–
–
–
–

–

403

403

(116)

287

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MCEV

198
–

12

65

–
(19)
(35)
(47)

(24)
105
–

81
8
–
8

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£m

Return on MCEV is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV in US dollars.

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Experience variances
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Assumption changes 
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

15
14
–
3
(2)

14
14
–
(4)
4

9
8
–
–
1

(22)
6
–
(22)
(6)

24
22
–
3
(1)

(8)
20
–
(26)
(2)

(17)
(15)
–
(8)
6

(19)
(16)
2
–
(5)

(2)
(1)
–
–
(1)

(16)
9
(1)
(26)
2

(19)
(16)
–
(8)
5

(35)
(7)
1
(26)
(3)

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Expected existing business contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business contribution (in excess of reference rate)

Year ended 31 December 2012 

Free 
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Required 
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Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
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–

–

1

24

1

24

7

5

MCEV

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Bermuda: Overview
Operating earnings: Profits from Variable Annuity surrender experience and persistency assumption changes increased 
operating earnings in 2011, partially offset by losses from the strengthening of expense assumptions and modelling changes to the 
CNHR and Fixed Annuity reserves. 
Non-operating earnings and closing adjustments: The closing MCEV balance reduced considerably because of unfavourable 
market impacts on the Variable Annuity Guaranteed Minimum Accumulation Benefit (GMAB) performance. 

Expected existing business contribution
The expected contribution in excess of the risk free rate has reduced in 2011, with the VIF component reflecting lower credit spread 
income as a result of the run-off of the fixed income portfolio and lower earned credit spreads, and the ANW component reflecting 
lower interest earned on Old Mutual plc loan notes. 

Experience variances
Positive persistency variances in 2011 are mainly due to the surrender of Variable Annuity contracts over the period. This includes the 
impact of special surrender fee waiver offers given to Universal Guarantee Option (UGO) clients outside of Hong Kong during the 
year, which significantly increased the number of surrenders taking place in 2011. Expense variances in 2011 include a one-off profit 
impact of £5 million due to the release of a legal expense provision. 

Operating assumption changes
Partial withdrawal and surrender assumptions were refined according to the results of the most recent experience investigation, with 
the main impacts being an increase in surrender rates of out-the-money UGO Variable Annuity contracts, and an increase in partial 
withdrawal rates on all products apart from Variable Annuities sold outside of Hong Kong. Expense assumptions were strengthened 
to take account of an updated forecast of business expenditure over the next three years and higher anticipated per-policy expenses 
over the run-off of the in-force book.

Other operating variances 
Losses due to other operating experience variances consist mainly of CNHR modelling changes, where the capital model used has 
been updated to reflect Old Mutual’s Solvency II Internal Model framework, as well as the strengthening of Fixed Annuity reserves to 
allow for market-value adjustments to withdrawal payments that compensate policyholders in a low interest rate environment. The 
movement between free surplus and required capital is mostly due to the current policy of calculating required capital as the ANW 
held in the business. ANW, and therefore required capital, have reduced significantly over the period, largely due to the impact of 
adverse financial markets on Variable Annuity (GMAB) reserves. Capital requirements for Bermuda are managed at Group on an 
economic capital basis.

Economic variances
Below-the-line economic variance losses consist largely of increases in Variable Annuity (GMAB) reserves due to adverse equity 
market and exchange rate movements (net of gains from the partial hedging strategy), as well as significantly lower interest rates.

Foreign exchange effects
The negative effect was caused by the depreciation of the US dollar against sterling applied to the MCEV earnings and  
closing balance.

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B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings (after tax) continued

Nordic

Opening MCEV
New business value
Expected existing business

contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business
contribution (in excess of
reference rate) 

Transfers from VIF and required

capital to free surplus

Experience variances
Assumption changes
Other operating variance

Operating MCEV earnings
Economic variances
Other non-operating variance

Total MCEV earnings
Closing adjustments

Capital and dividend flows
Foreign exchange variance

Closing MCEV

Return on MCEV (RoEV)% 

per annum

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

51
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135
8

186
(46)

1,318
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MCEV

1,504
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Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

91
(49)

104
6

195
(43)

1,114
84

3

–

129
(1)
–
–

77
7
39

123
(16)
(11)
(5)

158

3

–

–
(1)
–
–

10
(16)
1

(5)
(3)
–
(3)

127

6

–

129
(2)
–
–

87
(9)
40

118
(19)
(11)
(8)

285

36

33

(129)
(1)
(4)
4

41
(180)
(3)

(142)
(28)
–
(28)

42

33

–
(3)
(4)
4

128
(189)
37

(24)
(47)
(11)
(36)

1,148

1,433

8.5%

–

–

103
30
–
(44)

40
(4)
17

53
(93)
(100)
7

51

1

–

–
(5)
–
4

6
12
–

18
13
–
13

135

1

–

103
25
–
(40)

46
8
17

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(80)
(100)
20

186

14

26

(103)
(1)
(55)
34

(1)
86
–

85
119
–
119

Return on MCEV is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV in krona.

£m

MCEV

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15

26

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45
94
17

156
39
(100)
139

1,318

1,504

3.3%

£m

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted 
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Value of 
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MCEV

Experience variances
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Assumption changes 
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

(2)
(3)
–
(10)
11

–
–
–
–
–

(1)
6
1
–
(8)

(4)
(6)
–
–
2

(3)
3
1
(10)
3

(4)
(6)
–
–
2

25
(2)
5
2
20

–
–
–
–
–

(1)
(6)
–
–
5

(55)
(7)
–
(18)
(30)

24
(8)
5
2
25

(55)
(7)
–
(18)
(30)

£m

Expected existing business contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business contribution (in excess of reference rate)

Year ended 31 December 2012

Free 
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Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force 

3

–

3

–

6

–

28

25

MCEV

34

25

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Nordic: Overview
On 15 December 2011, the Company announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell the Nordic business unit to Skandia 
Liv for the sum of SEK 22.5 billion (£2.1 billion). This transaction is still subject to shareholder approval. The Nordic business was 
therefore owned by the Company over the entire reporting period.

New business: The new business value increased (compared to 2010) largely driven by the strong sales growth in Skandia 
Link Denmark.
Operating earnings: The operating profits on the in-force book were driven by the expected unwind of the MCEV. The overall 
impact of experience variances and assumption changes was small. 
Non-operating earnings and closing adjustments: The most material impact was due to the negative economic variance, 
largely driven by a fall in the equity markets during 2011. 

New business
The key reason for the increase in volume and margin is the strong sales growth in Skandia Link Denmark, which tends to attract 
higher margins. Sales in Sweden were relatively flat in 2011 compared to 2010. The strong sales in Denmark are a result of using a 
tied agent network as well as the effect of the new commission legislation (which resulted in a surge of new business before the law 
was effected). 

Expected existing business contribution
The unwind of returns on the in-force business over 2011 was higher than 2010. The higher unwind was due to higher assumed real 
world expected returns and a higher opening MCEV balance on which the unwind is based. 

Experience variances
The experience variances are primarily driven by a major restructuring programme implemented in 2011. This was offset by positive 
rebate experience arising from a higher level of rebate income than expected. 

Operating assumption changes
The impact of assumption changes has reduced significantly compared to 2010 and largely reflects a strengthening of the 
persistency assumptions (premium reductions, transfers and surrenders). The strengthening of persistency assumptions reflects 
higher anticipated future transfers within a few specific segments rather than recent experience (which has been positive).

Other operating variances 
The positive other operating variance was the result of a decrease in the CNHR resulting from implementation of a new economic 
capital model (to align with Solvency II requirements). This was partially offset by the impact of a change in the methodology used to 
determine expense inflation assumptions.

Economic variances
The negative economic variance has been driven by a fall in the equity markets during the second half of 2011 (the Swedish OMX 
index decreased by 17% over 2011 compared with an increase of 18% over 2010), with the downward shift in the swap curve 
producing a further negative impact.

Other non-operating variances
The other non-operating variance relates primarily to the net effect of a capital contribution from Skandia Liv. During the year, 
Skandia Liv made a group contribution of £154 million to the Skandia Group. Unrelieved tax losses have been used to offset the 
entire tax charge on this transaction. Simultaneously, the Skandia Group made a capital injection of £110 million back to Skandia Liv, 
corresponding to the group contribution net of tax relief.

Capital and dividend flows
The capital and dividend flows mainly represent dividends, repayment of loans and capital injections.

Foreign exchange effects
The negative effect was caused by the 2% depreciation of krona against sterling applied to the MCEV closing balance.

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B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings (after tax) continued

Year ended 31 December 2011

Year ended 31 December 2010

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

US Life

Opening MCEV
New business value
Expected existing business

contribution (reference rate)

Expected existing business
contribution (in excess of
reference rate) 

Transfers from VIF and required

capital to free surplus

Experience variances
Assumption changes
Other operating variance

Operating MCEV earnings
Economic variances
Other non-operating variance

Total MCEV earnings
Closing adjustments

Capital and dividend flows
Foreign exchange variance
MCEV of acquired/sold 
business

Closing MCEV

Return on MCEV (RoEV)% 

per annum

Free 
surplus

Required 
capital

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

66
–

468
–

534
–

(723)
–

MCEV

(189)
–

–

–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–

–

–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–

–

–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–

–
(66)
–
(2)

–
(468)
–
(19)

–
(534)
–
(21)

(64)

(449)

(513)

–

–

–

–

–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–

–
723
–
28

695

–

–

–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–

–
189
–
7

182

–

–

36
(66)

462
66

1

–

81
33
(6)
–

43
71
–

114
(84)
(85)
1

–

66

9

–

(47)
(23)
–
–

5
(18)
–

(13)
19
–
19

–

468

498
–

10

–

34
10
(6)
–

48
53
–

101
(65)
(85)
20

–

534

Return on MCEV is calculated as the operating MCEV earnings after tax divided by opening MCEV in US dollars.

£m

MCEV

(318)
(28)

25

80

–
40
(63)
(7)

47
180
–

227
(98)
(85)
(13)

(816)
(28)

15

80

(34)
30
(57)
(7)

(1)
127
–

126
(33)
–
(33)

–

–

(723)

(189)

14.1%

£m

Experience variances
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Assumption changes 
Persistency
Risk
Expenses
Other

Year ended 31 December 2011

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2010

Adjusted 
net worth

Value of 
in-force

MCEV

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–
–

10
4
–
25
(19)

(6)
(6)
–
–
–

30
38
(10)
–
2

(57)
(58)
(1)
2
–

40
42
(10)
25
(17)

(63)
(64)
(1)
2
–

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US Life
For the year ended 31 December 2011, Old Mutual Reassurance (Ireland) Limited (OM Re), which provides reinsurance to the United States 
Life Companies, is included within the Old Mutual plc results. For all comparative periods, the results for US Life include allowance for OM Re. 

The sale of the US Life insurance business to Harbinger Capital Partners was completed, following regulatory approval, on 7 April 2011. 
This transaction has resulted in an uplift of £451 million to the adjusted Group MCEV, based on the 31 December 2010 value for US Life. 
Further details relating to the MCEV impact of this transaction are noted in A4.

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C: Other key performance information
C1: Value of new business (after tax)
The tables below set out the regional analysis of the value of new business (VNB) after tax. New business profitability is measured by 
both the ratio of the VNB to the present value of new business premiums (PVNBP) as well as to the annual premium equivalent (APE), 
and shown under PVNBP margin and APE margin below. APE is calculated as recurring premiums plus 10% of single premiums. 
Bermuda is excluded from the tables below as it is closed to new business.

Year ended 

31 December 2011

Long-Term Savings 
Emerging Markets
Retail Europe
Wealth Management

Nordic
US Life**

Total covered 
business

Year ended 

31 December 2010

Long-Term Savings 
Emerging Markets
Retail Europe
Wealth Management

Nordic
US Life**

Total covered 
business

Annualised 
recurring 
premiums

Single 
premiums

6,211
1,441
56
4,714
753
–

7,359
1,611
63
5,685
573
824

569
363
67
139
153
–

722

554
325
63
166
144
10

708

6,964

10,460

Annualised 
recurring 
premiums

Single 
premiums

PVNBP

9,113
3,295
549
5,269
1,347
–

PVNBP

10,162
3,269
513
6,380
1,104
889

PVNBP 
capitalisation 
factors*

5.1
5.1
7.4
4.0
3.9
–

4.8

PVNBP 
capitalisation 
factors*

5.1
5.1
7.2
4.2
3.7
6.6

4.8

APE

1,189
506
72
611
229
–

1,418

APE

1,290
487
69
734
201
92

1,583

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PVNBP 
margin

APE margin

1.9%
3.0%
1.5%
1.3%
4.2%
–

2.2%

15%
20%
11%
11%
25%
–

16%

£m

PVNBP  
margin

1.6%
2.6%
1.4%
1.0%
3.7%
(3.2)%

APE margin

13%
18%
11%
9%
21%
(31)%

1.4%

11%

VNB

177
99
8
70
56
–

233

VNB

159
86
7
66
41
(28)

172

8,756

12,155

*  The PVNBP capitalisation factors are calculated as follows: (PVNBP – single premiums)/annualised recurring premiums.
** The US Life VNB is negative when calculated on an MCEV basis, due to the reliance on spread in the pricing basis, and the low risk free swap curve.

The value of new individual unit trust linked retirement annuities and pension fund asset management business written by the 
Emerging Markets long-term business of £884 million (2010: £723 million) is excluded as the profits on this business arise in the asset 
management business. The value of new business also excludes premium increases arising from indexation arrangements in respect 
of existing business, as these are already included in the value of in-force business.

The value of new institutional investment platform pensions business written in Wealth Management of £704 million (2010: £304 
million) is excluded as this is more appropriately classified as unit trust business. 

New business single premiums of £31 million, annualised recurring premiums of £14 million and APE of £17 million in respect of the 
life business in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland and Zimbabwe have been excluded from the above tables, as no value of new 
business and PVNBP calculations have been performed for these businesses.

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C2: Drivers of new business value for covered business (PVNBP margin)*

Year ended 31 December 2011

Margin at the end of 

comparative period**

Change in volume
Change in country and product mix
Change in operating assumptions
Change in economic assumptions
Change in tax/regulation
Exchange rate movements

Margin at the end of the period

Year ended 31 December 2010

Margin at the end of 

comparative period

Change in volume
Change in country and product mix
Change in operating assumptions
Change in economic assumptions
Change in tax/regulation
Exchange rate movements

Margin at the end of the period

Total covered 
business

Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 
Markets

Retail  

Europe

Wealth 
Management

Nordic

US Life

%

1.8

0.2
(0.2)
0.2
0.2
–
–

2.2

Total  
covered 
business

1.6

(0.1)
0.1
0.1
(0.4)
–
0.1

1.4

1.6

0.1
(0.2)
0.2
0.2
–
–

1.9

2.6

0.3
(0.6)
0.4
0.4 
(0.1)
–

3.0

1.4

0.5
(0.3)
(0.4) 
0.3
–
–

1.5

1.0

(0.1)
–
0.2
0.1
0.1
–

1.3

3.7

0.1
0.4
(0.1)
0.1
–
–

4.2

–

–
–
–
–
–
–

–

%

Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 
Markets

Retail  
Europe 

Wealth 
Management

Nordic

US Life

1.3

–
0.2
0.2
(0.1)
–
–

1.6

2.3

0.1
0.4
(0.1)
(0.1)
–
–

2.6

(1.0)

1.6
(0.2)
0.9
0.1
–
–

1.4

1.0

(0.1)
(0.1)
0.2
–
–
–

1.0

3.8

(0.1)
0.6
(0.4)
(0.2)
–
–

3.7

2.2

(0.1)
(0.9)
(0.6)
(3.8)
–
–

(3.2)

*  The PVNBP margin changes are calculated in the business unit reporting currency.
** The PVNBP margin at the end of the comparative period has been restated to exclude the US Life margin impact.

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positive trends across all business units. 

For Emerging Markets the increase in new business margin is largely influenced by external factors, in particular the change from 
STC to dividend withholding tax in South Africa and the more favourable economic basis, as well as favourable operating assumption 
changes. Strong sales growth in Mass Foundation Cluster, which has higher margins than other segments, also contributed 
positively. These effects were partly offset by the adverse effect of tax legislation changes reducing the profitability of the Fixed Bond 
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For Wealth Management, the increase in margin is predominately due to reduced acquisition expenses and favourable assumption 
changes (both operating and economic).

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C3: Adjustments applied in determining total Group MCEV earnings before tax

Analysis of adjusting items

Income/(expense)
Goodwill impairment and amortisation of non-

covered business acquired intangible assets and
impact of acquisition accounting

Economic variances
Other non-operating variances
Acquired/divested business*
Dividends declared to holders of perpetual 

preferred callable securities

Adjusting items relating to US Asset Management

equity plans and non-controlling interests
Fair value gains on Group debt instruments

Adjusting items

Adjusting items from continuing operations
Adjusting items from discontinued operations

Total MCEV adjusting items

Year ended 31 December 2011 

Year ended 31 December 2010

Covered 
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MCEV

Non-covered 
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IFRS

Total  
Group  
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Covered 
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MCEV

Non-covered 
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–
(554)
22
–

–

–
–

(532)

(378)
(154)

(532)

(283)
(28)
–
182

44

(3)
22

(66)

(59)
(7)

(66)

(283)
(582)
22
182

44

(3)
22

(598)

(437)
(161)

(598)

–
864
17
–

–

–
–

881

591
290

881

(20)
(7)
–
(22)

44

6
(203)

(202)

(196)
(6)

(202)

£m

Total 
 Group  
MCEV

(20)
857
17
(22)

44

6
(203)

679

395
284

679

*  This relates to the non-covered businesses in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland and Zimbabwe that have been included for the first time during 2011. 

C4: Other movements in IFRS net equity impacting Group MCEV

Year ended 31 December 2011 

Year ended 31 December 2010

Fair value gains/(losses)
Net investment hedge
Currency translation differences/exchange

Covered  
business  
MCEV

Non-covered 
business 
IFRS

–
–

24
28

Total  
Group  
MCEV

24
28

Covered  
business  
MCEV

Non-covered 
business IFRS

–
–

differences on translating foreign operations

(693)

(498)

(1,191)

580

Aggregate tax effects of items taken directly 

to or transferred from equity

Other movements*

Net income recognised directly into equity
Capital and dividend flows for the year**
Inclusion of other African life businesses**
Net purchase of treasury shares
Shares issued in lieu of cash dividends
Other shares issued
Acquisition of non-controlling interest 

in Mutual & Federal

Change in share based payment reserve

Other movements in net equity

–
182

(511)
(257)
69
–
–
–

–
–

(699)

11
128

(307)
(8)
–
(17)
124
10

–
50

(148)

11
310

(818)
(265)
69
(17)
124
10

–
50

(847)

–
–

580
(468)
–
–
–
–

–
–

112

£m

Total  
Group 
 MCEV

8
(86)

1,028

14
(24)

940
(146)
–
(28)
162
4

(93)
4

843

8
(86)

448

14
(24)

360
322
–
(28)
162
4

(93)
4

731

*  This relates to the reversal of the US Life MCEV on the covered business.
**  Dividends are allowed for on a cash basis, consistent with IFRS. The effect of the capital transfer relating to the inclusion of the other African life businesses is 

separated out from the other capital and dividend flows for the period as this is not eliminated on group consolidation. The £69 million is included in the 
Capital and dividend flows of £(188) million included in Note B4: Analysis of covered business MCEV earnings for Emerging Markets. Any foreign exchange 
movement on this opening balance is allocated as a foreign exchange variance.

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C5: Reconciliation of MCEV adjusted net worth to IFRS net asset value for the covered business
The table below provides a reconciliation of the MCEV adjusted net worth (ANW) to the IFRS net asset value (NAV) for the  
covered business. 

Total 
covered 
business

5,214

Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 
Markets 

Retail 
Europe

Wealth 
Management

3,744

1,230

600

1,914

Bermuda

201

Nordic

1,269

(1,905)

(1,108)

182

(305)

(985)

(14)

(783)

365
(998)

365
(797)

365
(9)

–
(191)

–
(597)

–
–

–
(201)

2,676

2,204

1,768

104

332

187

285

Total  
covered 
business

5,794

Long-Term 
Savings

3,845

Emerging 
Markets 

1,216

Retail Europe

Wealth 
Management

632

1,997

Bermuda

432

Nordic

1,243

£m

US Life

–

–

–
–

–

£m

US Life

274

(1,822)

(1,202)

207

(331)

(1,078)

(29)

(851)

260

389
(1,010)

389
(804)

389
(8)

–
(198)

–
(598)

–
–

–
(206)

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–

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IFRS net asset value*
Adjustment to include 
long-term business 
on a statutory 
solvency basis
Inclusion of Group 
equity and debt 
instruments held in 
life funds**

Goodwill

Adjusted net worth 
attributable to 
ordinary 
equity holders  
of the parent

At 31 December  
  2010

IFRS net asset value*
Adjustment to include 
long-term business 
on a statutory 
solvency basis
Inclusion of Group 
equity and debt 
instruments held in 
life funds**

Goodwill

Adjusted net worth 
attributable to 
ordinary 
equity holders  
of the parent

3,351

2,228

1,804

103

321

403

186

534

*  IFRS net asset value is after elimination of inter-company loans.
** A further £(69) million (2010: £(83) million) relates to the non-covered business.

The adjustments to include long-term business on a statutory solvency basis reflect the difference between the net worth of each 
business on the statutory basis (as required by the local regulator) and their portion of the Group’s consolidated equity shareholder 
funds. In South Africa, these values exclude items that are eliminated or shown separately on consolidation (such as Nedbank and 
inter-company loans). For some European countries the value reflected in the adjustment to include long-term business on a 
statutory solvency basis includes the value of the deferred acquisition cost asset, which is part of the equity.

The adjustment to include long-term business on a statutory solvency basis includes the following:

 ■ The excess of the IFRS amount of the deferred acquisition cost (DAC) and value of business acquired (VOBA) assets over the 
statutory levels included in the VIF with the exception of the Bermuda business where DAC is an admissible asset under local 
statutory basis.

 ■ When projecting future profits on a statutory basis, the VIF includes the shareholders’ value of unrealised capital gains. To the 
extent that assets in IFRS are valued at market and the market value is higher than the statutory book value, these profits have 
already been taken into account in the IFRS equity. For Bermuda business, VIF reflects the impact of amortizing DAC allowed 
under the ANW.

 ■ For the US Life business, the reversal of the IFRS impairment for discontinued operations which is included in the IFRS net asset 

value, as this is not recognised on a statutory solvency basis.

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For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

D1: Sensitivity tests
The tables below show the sensitivity of the MCEV, value of in-force business at 31 December 2011 and the value of new business 
for the year ended 31 December 2011 to the following:

 ■ Economic assumptions 1% increase: Increasing all pre-tax investment and economic assumptions by 1%, with credited rates 

and discount rates changing commensurately.

 ■ Economic assumptions 1% decrease: Decreasing all pre-tax investment and economic assumptions by 1%, with credited 

rates and discount rates changing commensurately.

 ■ Equity/property market value 10% increase: Equity and property market value increasing by 10%, with all pre-tax investment 

and economic assumptions unchanged.

 ■ Equity/property market value 10% decrease: Equity and property market value decreasing by 10%, with all pre-tax 

investment and economic assumptions unchanged.

 ■ 10bps increase of liquidity spreads: Recognising the present value of an additional 10bps of liquidity spreads assumed on 

corporate bonds over the lifetime of the liabilities, with credited rates and discount rates changing commensurately.

 ■ 50bps contraction on corporate bond spreads.
 ■ 25% increase in equity/property implied volatilities: 25% multiplicative increase in equity and property implied volatilities.
 ■ 25% increase in swaption implied volatilities: 25% multiplicative increase in swaption implied volatilities.
 ■ 10% decrease in discontinuance rates: Voluntary discontinuance rates decreasing by 10%.
 ■ 10% decrease in maintenance expense: Maintenance expense levels decreasing by 10%, with no corresponding decrease in 

policy charges.

 ■ 5% decrease in mortality/morbidity rates: Mortality and morbidity assumptions for assurances decreasing by 5%, with no 

corresponding decrease in policy charges.

 ■ 5% decrease in mortality assumption: Mortality assumption for annuities decreasing by 5%, with no corresponding increase 

in policy charges.

 ■ VNB 10% increase in acquisition expenses: For value of new business, acquisition expenses other than commission and 

commission related expenses increasing by 10%, with no corresponding increase in policy charges.

 ■ VNB on closing economic assumptions: Value of new business calculated on economic assumptions at the end of 

reporting period.

 ■ Minimum capital requirement: Required capital equal to the minimum statutory requirement.
 ■ NHR capital diversification: Residual non-hedgeable risk capital reduced to incorporate diversification benefits between 

hedgeable and non-hedgeable risks for covered business.

 ■ 99.93% confidence level NHR capital: Economic capital for residual non-hedgeable risks calculated assuming a 99.93% 

confidence level which is targeted by an internal economic capital model.

For each sensitivity illustrated all other assumptions have been left unchanged except where they are directly affected by the revised 
conditions. Sensitivity scenarios therefore include consistent changes in cash flows directly affected by the changed assumption(s), 
for example future bonus participation in changed economic scenarios.

In some jurisdictions the reserving basis that underlies shareholder distributable cash flows is dynamic, and in theory some 
sensitivities could change not only future experience but also reserving levels. Modelling of dynamic reserves is extremely complex 
and the effect on value is second-order. Therefore, in performing the sensitivities, reserving bases have been kept constant for 
non-linked business (including non-linked reserves for linked business) whilst only varying future experience assumptions with similar 
considerations applying to required capital. However the sensitivities for South Africa in respect of an increase/decrease of all pre-tax 
investment and economic assumptions, an increase/decrease in equity and property market values and increases in equity, property 
and swaption implied volatilities allow for the change in the time value of financial options and guarantees that form part of the IGR.

The sensitivities for an increase/decrease in all pre-tax investment and economic assumptions (with credited rates and discount rates 
changing commensurately) are calculated in line with a parallel shift in risk free reference spot rates rather than risk free reference 
forward rates. However, the 1% reduction is limited so that it does not lead to negative risk free reference rates.

The equity and property sensitivities make allowance for rebalancing of asset portfolios.

VNB sensitivities assume that the scenario arises immediately after point of sale of the contract. Therefore no allowance is made for 
the ability to re-price any contracts in the sensitivity scenarios, apart from the mortality sensitivities for the South African business 
where allowance is made for changes in the pricing basis for products with reviewable premiums.

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Sensitivity tests: MCEV

At 31 December 2011

Central assumptions
Effect on MCEV of:
Economic assumption 1% increase
Economic assumption 1% decrease
Equity/property market value 

Total covered 
business

Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 

Markets  Retail Europe 

Wealth 
Management

Bermuda

7,212

5,713

3,167

7,103
7,315

5,579
5,836

3,109
3,209

10% increase

7,585

5,948

3,285

Equity/property market value 

10% decrease

10bps increase of liquidity spreads
50bps contraction on corporate 

bond spreads

25% increase in equity/property

implied volatilities

25% increase in swaption 

implied volatilities

10% decrease in discontinuance rates
10% decrease in 

maintenance expense
5% decrease in mortality/

morbidity rates

5% decrease in mortality assumption
Minimum capital requirement
NHR capital diversification
99.93% confidence level NHR capital

6,869
7,221

5,509
5,722

3,054
3,176

7,232

5,728

3,182

7,124

5,691

3,146

7,198
7,405

5,701
5,884

3,157
3,224

7,471

5,919

3,305

7,333
7,190
7,267
7,282
7,155

5,833
5,693
5,766
5,759
5,660

3,270
3,147
3,217
3,192
3,140

Sensitivity tests: Value of in-force business

At 31 December 2011

Central assumptions 
Effect on value of in-force business of:
Economic assumption 1% increase
Economic assumption 1% decrease
Equity/property market value 

4,536

3,509

1,399

4,384
4,673

3,392
3,611

1,338
1,443

10% increase

4,790

3,674

1,475

Equity/property market value 

10% decrease

10bps increase of liquidity spreads
50bps contraction on corporate 

bond spreads

25% increase in equity/property 

implied volatilities

25% increase in swaption 

implied volatilities

10% decrease in discontinuance rates
10% decrease in 

maintenance expense
5% decrease in mortality/

morbidity rates

5% decrease in mortality assumption
Minimum capital requirement
NHR capital diversification
99.93% confidence level NHR capital

4,283
4,545

3,346
3,519

1,327
1,409

4,540

3,509

1,399

4,513

3,488

1,379

4,521
4,749

3,497
3,680

1,388
1,455

4,795

3,715

1,537

4,657
4,514
4,590
4,606
4,478

3,629
3,490
3,562
3,555
3,456

1,502
1,380
1,449
1,424
1,372

Total covered 
business

Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 

Markets  Retail Europe

Wealth 
Management

Bermuda

£m

Nordic

1,433

1,407
1,461

1,519

1,346
1,433

1,433

1,433

1,433
1,473

1,475

1,434
1,431
1,433
1,453
1,433

£m

Nordic

1,148

1,121
1,176

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1,876
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1,958

1,957

1,958
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2,005

1,971
1,958
1,960
1,969
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1,590
1,670

1,706

1,544
1,626

1,626

1,625

1,626
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1,673

1,639
1,626
1,628
1,637
1,607

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(114)

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(121)

(116)

(122)

(123)
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1,147

1,147

1,147

1,147
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1,190

(121)
(121)
(119)
(117)
(125)

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1,145
1,147
1,168
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Total covered 
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Long-Term 
Savings

Emerging 

Markets  Retail Europe

Wealth 
Management

MCEV
NOTES TO ThE MCEV bASIS  
SUPPLEMENTARy INFORMATION
For the year ended 31 December 2011 continued

Sensitivity tests: Value of new business

At 31 December 2011

Central assumptions
Effect value of new business of:

Economic assumption 1% increase
Economic assumption 1% decrease
Equity/property market value 10% increase
Equity/property market value 10% decrease
10bps increase of liquidity spreads
50bps contraction on corporate bond spreads
25% increase in equity/property implied volatilities
25% increase in swaption implied volatilities
10% decrease in discontinuance rates
10% decrease in maintenance expense
5% decrease in mortality/morbidity rates
5% decrease in mortality assumption
VNB 10% increase in acquisition expenses
VNB on closing economic assumptions
Minimum capital requirement

NHR capital diversification
99.93% confidence level NHR capital

233

215
250
244
223
234
233
232
233
280
255
247
233
214
251
238

239
227

177

160
192
183
172
178
177
176
177
214
196
191
177
159
195
182

181
171

99

92
105
99
99
100
99
99
99
125
111
114
99
88
107
104

101
97

Sensitivity tests: Total covered business at 31 December 2010

At 31 December 2010

Central assumptions
Effect on Total covered business of:

Economic assumption 1% increase
Economic assumption 1% decrease
Equity/property market value 10% increase
Equity/property market value 10% decrease
10bps increase of liquidity spreads
50bps contraction on corporate bond spreads
25% increase in equity/property implied volatilities
25% increase in swaption implied volatilities
10% decrease in discontinuance rates
10% decrease in maintenance expense
5% decrease in mortality/morbidity rates
5% decrease in mortality assumption
VNB 10% increase in acquisition expenses
VNB on closing economic assumptions
Minimum capital requirement
NHR capital diversification
99.93% confidence level NHR capital

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£m

Nordic

56

55
58
61
51
56
56
56
56
66
59
56
56
55
56
56

58
56

£m

Value of new 
business

172

180
156
176
180
165
172
172
147
211
192
185
171
154
189
176
175
166

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5
10
8
8
8
8
8
8
9
10
7
8
6
9
8

9
8

MCEV 

7,515

7,259
7,761
7,567
7,886
7,147
7,815
7,396
7,423
7,747
7,777
7,654
7,464
n/a
n/a
7,578
7,565
7,437

70

63
77
76
65
70
70
69
70
80
75
70
70
65
79
70

71
66

Value of 
in-force 
business

4,164

3,847
4,468
4,216
4,441
3,895
4,444
4,138
4,072
4,415
4,426
4,304
4,114
n/a
n/a
4,227
4,215
4,087

E1: Disposal of Nordic businesses
On 15 December 2011, the Company announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell the assets and liabilities of its Nordic 
business unit to Skandia Liv for the sum of SEK 22.5 billion (£2.1 billion). This transaction is still subject to shareholder approval. As a 
result, the MCEV earnings of the Nordic business have been included as discontinued within the MCEV results, including restating 
the prior year. Nordic life business does however continue to contribute to the covered business MCEV at 31 December 2011.

The tables below indicate the estimated impact to the Adjusted Group MCEV at 31 December 2011 as a result of the disposal of the 
Nordic businesses.

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Advisor fees and costs

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Removal of Nordic MCEV*

Adjusted Group MCEV uplift

Adjusted Group MCEV uplift per share (pence)**

*  This includes the covered and non-covered business
** This excludes the impact of the share consolidation

On 3 February 2012 the Company announced that it:

Covered 
business

Other 
business

–
–

–
(1,433)

(1,433)

(25.8)

2,100
(20)

2,080
(329)

1,751

31.5

£m

Total

2,100
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2,080
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 ■ Intends to carry out a share consolidation on a 7 for 8 consolidation basis (designed to keep the share price broadly unchanged). 

Estimated Adjusted Group MCEV post disposal of Nordic

Adjusted Group MCEV per share at 31 December 2011

Net sales proceeds* 
Special dividend
Share consolidation

Adjusted Group MCEV per share at 31 December 2011 post disposal of Nordic

*  Net of the removal of the Nordic MCEV

Covered 
business

Other 
business

129.7

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14.8

118.7

64.4

31.5
(18.0)
11.2

89.1

£m

Total

194.1

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ShAREhOLdER INFORMATION

Listings and shares in issue
The Company’s shares are listed on the London, Malawi, Namibian and Zimbabwe Stock Exchanges and on the JSE Limited (JSE). 
The primary listing is on the London Stock Exchange and the other listings are all secondary listings. The Company’s secondary 
listing on the Stockholm Stock Exchange ended on 7 September 2007, but the Company’s shares may still be traded on the 
Xternal list of the Nordic Exchange in Stockholm. The ISIN number of the Company’s existing ordinary shares of 10p each is 
GB0007389926, but a new ISIN number (GB00B77J0862) has been provisionally assigned to the new ordinary shares of 113/7p 
each that will result from the proposed 7 for 8 share consolidation, which is expected to take effect following the close  
of business on 20 April 2012.

The high and low closing prices of the Company’s shares on the two main markets on which they were listed during 2011 and 2010 
were as follows:

London Stock Exchange
JSE

High

144.8p
R17.25

2011 
Low

98.1p
R12.34

High

145.2p
R15.84

2010 
Low

97.3p
R11.64

At 31 December 2011, the geographical analysis and shareholder profile of the Company’s share register were as follows:

Register

UK
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Namibia
Malawi
Treasury shares (UK)2

Total

Source: Computershare Investor Services

Size of holding

1-1,000
1,001-10,000
10,001-100,000
100,001-250,000
250,001+
Treasury shares (UK)2

Total

Source: Computershare Investor Services

Total shares

% of whole

2,583,706,968
2,894,397,695
63,072,862
15,155,449
5,273,415
239,434,888

5,801,041,277

44.54
49.89
1.09
0.26
0.09
4.13

100

Total shares

% of whole

22,802,674
25,466,344
31,612,753
28,574,885
5,453,149,733
239,434,888

5,801,041,277

0.39
0.44
0.55
0.49
94.00
4.13

100

Number 
of holders

10,779
29,9301
30,2851
5461
4,6321
1

76,173

Number 
of holders

64,960
9,575
1,057
179
401
1

76,173

Notes
1.  The registered shareholdings on the South African branch register included PLC Nominees (Pty) Limited, which held a total of 2,505,056,756 shares, 

including 363,254,227 shares held for the Company’s sponsored nominee, Old Mutual (South Africa) Nominees (Pty) Limited, for the benefit of 425,129 
underlying beneficial owners. The registered shareholdings on the Zimbabwe branch register included Old Mutual Zimbabwe Nominees (Pvt) Limited,  
which held a total of 783,827 shares as nominee for 3,496 underlying beneficial owners. The registered shareholdings on the Namibian section of the 
principal register included Old Mutual (Namibia) Nominees (Pty) Limited, which held a total of 7,585,456 shares as nominee for 6,980 underlying beneficial 
owners. The registered shareholdings on the Malawi branch register included Old Mutual (Blantyre) Nominees Limited, which held a total of 64,134 shares  
as nominee for 137 underlying beneficial owners. 

2. The shares held in treasury were all cancelled on 13 January 2012 and the total number of issued shares was reduced by a corresponding amount.

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Registrars
The Company’s share register is administered by Computershare 
Investor Services in conjunction with local representatives in 
various jurisdictions. The following are the contact details:

UK
Computershare Investor Services PLC 
The Pavilions 
Bridgwater Road 
Bristol 
BS99 6ZZ 
Tel: +44 (0)870 707 1212 
Website: www.investorcentre.co.uk/contactus

South Africa
Computershare Investor Services Pty Ltd 
70 Marshall Street 
Johannesburg 2001 
(PO Box 61051, Marshalltown) 2107 
Tel: 0861 100 940 

+27 (0)11 870 8211 

Email: omsa@computershare.co.za

Malawi
National Bank of Malawi 
Financial Management Services Department 
Cnr Victoria Avenue/Henderson Street 
Blantyre  
(PO Box 1438, Blantyre, Malawi) 
Tel: +265 182 3483/0900 
Email: nbminvestment@natbankmw.com

Namibia
Transfer Secretaries (Pty) Limited 
4 Robert Mugabe Street 
Windhoek 
(PO Box 2401, Windhoek) 
Tel: +264 (0)61 227647 
Fax: +264 (0)61 248531 
Email: ts@nsx.com.na

Zimbabwe
Corpserve Share Transfer Secretaries 
2nd Floor, ZB Centre 
Cnr First Street/Kwame Nkrumah Avenue 
Harare 
(PO Box 2208, Harare, Zimbabwe) 
Tel: +263 (0)4 751559/61 
Fax: +263 (0)4 752629 
Email: enquiries@corpserve.co.zw

Computershare share dealing services
Share dealing service in South Africa and Namibia: The 
Company’s South African registrars, Computershare Investor 
Services, administer a telephone and postal sales service for 
shares held through Old Mutual (South Africa) Nominees (Pty) 
Limited on the South African branch register and shares held 
through Old Mutual (Namibia) Nominees (Pty) Limited on the 
Namibian section of the principal register. If you hold your shares 
in this way and wish to sell your shares by telephone, 
Computershare may be contacted on 0861 100 940 (a South 
African number) between 8.00 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. (local time)  
on Mondays to Fridays, excluding public holidays. A service fee 
is payable based on the value of the shares sold.

Internet share dealing: This service provides shareholders with 
a facility to buy or sell Old Mutual plc ordinary shares on the 
London Stock Exchange. The commission for deals through the 
internet is 1.0%, subject to a minimum charge of £30. In addition, 
stamp duty, currently 0.5%, is payable on purchases. There is  
no need to open an account in order to deal. Real-time dealing  
is available during market hours. Orders may also be placed 
outside market hours. Up to 90-day limit orders are available  
for sales. To access the service, log on to www.computershare.
com/dealing/uk.

Telephone share dealing: The commission for deals on the 
London Stock Exchange through Computershare’s telephone 
share-dealing service is 1%, plus £35. In addition, stamp duty, 
currently 0.5%, is payable on purchases. The service is available 
from 8.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Monday to Friday, excluding bank 
holidays, on UK telephone number 0870 703 0084. Detailed 
terms and conditions are available on request. 

For sales under both the internet and telephone share dealing 
services above, shareholders should have their Shareholder 
Reference Number (SRN) ready. The SRN appears on share 
certificates and dividend cheques or tax statements. Payment  
by cheque will be required for purchases. For general enquiries 
about the dealing services, shareholders can call 0870 873 5836 
(a UK number).

These services are offered on an execution-only basis and 
subject to the applicable terms and conditions. This is not a 
recommendation to buy, sell or hold shares in Old Mutual plc. 
Shareholders who are unsure of what action to take should 
obtain independent financial advice. Share values may go down 
as well as up, which may result in a shareholder receiving less 
than originally invested. To the extent that this statement is a 
financial promotion for the share dealing service provided by 
Computershare Investor Services PLC, it has been approved by 
Computershare Investor Services PLC for the purpose of section 
21(2)(b) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 only. 
Computershare Investor Services PLC is authorised and 
regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Where this has 
been received in a country where the provision of such a service 
would be contrary to local laws or regulations, this should be 
treated as information only.

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Electronic communication and electronic 
proxy appointment
If you would like to receive future communications from the 
Company by email, please log on to our website, www.
oldmutual.com, select ‘Investor Relations’, then ‘Shareholder 
Centre’, then click on ‘Electronic Communication’ and follow the 
instructions for registration of your details. In order to register, 
you will need your Shareholder Reference Number, which can  
be found on the payment advice notice or tax voucher 
accompanying your last dividend payment or notification.  
The number is also printed on forms of proxy (but not voting 
instruction forms) for the Annual General Meeting.

Before you register, you will be asked to agree to the Terms and 
Conditions for Electronic Communications with Shareholders. It 
is important that you read these Terms and Conditions carefully, 
as they set out the basis on which electronic communications 
will be sent to you.

You should bear in mind that, in accessing documents 
electronically, you will incur the cost of online time. Any election 
to receive documents electronically will generally remain in force 
until you contact the Company’s Registrars (via the online 
address set out earlier in this section of the Report or otherwise) 
to terminate or change such election.

The use of the electronic communications facility described 
above is entirely voluntary. If you wish to continue to receive 
communications from the Company by post, then you do not 
need to take any action. However, the Company has indicated 
that it plans to move later in 2012 towards using electronic 
communications as the default means of communication with 
shareholders, in line with the provisions of the UK Companies 
Act 2006 and as permitted by its Articles of Association. Further 
information about the arrangements for this, including details  
of how you can elect to continue to receive printed shareholder 
communications, will be provided when this change-over  
is initiated.

Electronic proxy appointment is available for this year’s Annual 
General Meeting. This enables proxy votes to be submitted 
electronically, as an alternative to filling out and posting a form  
of proxy. Further details are set out on the form of proxy.

Strate
All transactions in the Company’s shares on the JSE are required 
to be settled electronically through Strate, and share certificates 
are no longer good for delivery in respect of such transactions. 
Shareholders who have any enquiries about the effect of Strate 
on their holdings in the Company should contact Computershare 
Investor Services in Johannesburg on 0861 100 940 or  
+27 (0)11 870 8211.

Checking your holding online
An online service is situated at the Investor Centre option within 
the website address www.computershare.com which gives 
shareholders access to their account to confirm registered 
details, to give or amend dividend mandate instructions, and to 

obtain a current shareholding balance. There are also a number 
of downloadable forms from this site such as change of address, 
dividend mandate and stock transfer forms as well as an 
extensive list of frequently asked questions and the facility  
to contact Computershare Investor Services by email.

Final Dividend for the year ended 31 December 2011 
and timetable for the Special Dividend and share 
consolidation
The Directors of the Company are recommending a final 
dividend for the year ended 31 December 2011 of 3.5p per 
existing ordinary share of 10 pence (an ‘Ordinary Share’), which 
will be paid, subject to being approved by shareholders at the 
Company’s 2012 Annual General Meeting, on 7 June 2012 (the 
‘Final Dividend’). The Final Dividend would equate to 4.0p per 
new ordinary share of 113/7 pence (a ‘New Ordinary Share’) 
if the proposed 7 for 8 share consolidation (the ‘Share 
Consolidation’) is approved by shareholders at the Company’s 
General Meeting on 14 March 2012. The Share Consolidation 
was announced by the Company on 3 February 2012 and is  
also conditional on approval by shareholders of the sale of the 
Group’s Nordic business (the ‘Disposal’), the Disposal being 
completed and the related Special Dividend (defined below) 
becoming unconditional. 

The special dividend of 18p (or its equivalent in other applicable 
currencies) per Ordinary Share (the ‘Special Dividend’), which 
was announced on 3 February 2012, will also be paid on 7 June 
2012, subject to approval by shareholders of the Disposal and 
the Share Consolidation at the General Meeting and the Disposal 
being completed.

Shareholders on the South African, Zimbabwe and Malawi 
branch registers and the Namibian section of the principal 
register will be paid the local currency cash equivalents of the 
Final Dividend and the Special Dividend under dividend access 
trust or similar arrangements established in each country. 
Shareholders who hold their shares through Euroclear Sweden 
AB, the Swedish nominee, will be paid the cash equivalent of 
both dividends in Swedish Kronor. Local currency cash 
equivalents of the dividends for all five territories will be 
determined by the Company using exchange rates prevailing  
at the close of business on 3 April 2012 and will be announced 
by the Company on 4 April 2012.

Share certificates for shareholders on the South African register 
may not be dematerialised or rematerialised between 4 April 
2012 and 20 April 2012, both dates inclusive, and transfers 
between the registers may not take place during that period.

A scrip dividend alternative is not being made available in relation 
to the Final Dividend, in view of the complexities involved in the 
Share Consolidation, nor in relation to the Special Dividend. The 
Directors of the Company will consider later in 2012 whether  
to reinstate a scrip dividend alternative for the interim dividend 
for the current year.

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The full timetable for the Final Dividend and the Special Dividend  
is set out below. 

General Meeting relating to the Disposal, 
related Special Dividend and Share 
Consolidation

Anticipated completion date for the Disposal 
and, subject to the Disposal being 
completed, the date the Special Dividend 
becomes unconditional

Currency conversion date

Exchange rates announced

Closing rates on  

3 April 2012

4 April 2012

Trading suspended between registers 

  Opening of business  

on 4 April 2012

13 April 2012

Last day to trade existing Ordinary Shares 
cum dividend (for the Special Dividend and 
the Final Dividend) for Ordinary 
Shareholders on the branch registers in 
South Africa, Malawi and Zimbabwe and  
on the Namibian section of the principal 
register. No further dealings in existing 
Ordinary Shares on these registers

14 March 2012

New Ordinary Shares credited to the 
accounts of dematerialised South African 
shareholders at their CSDP or broker and 
other African exchanges

23 April 2012

Trading between registers recommences

  Opening of business  

21 March 2012

Annual General Meeting

on 23 April 2012

10 May 2012

7 June 2012

Payment of Special Dividend and Final 
Dividend

For further details of the Special Dividend and Share 
Consolidation referred to above, please read the shareholder 
circular dated 3 February 2012 (the ‘Shareholder Circular’), 
which was sent to shareholders during February 2012. This 
also contains information about how fractional entitlements 
resulting from the Share Consolidation are being dealt with. 
The consolidation ratio resulting from the Share Consolidation 
for the purposes of dealings on the JSE is 0.875. The 
Shareholder Circular is also available on the Company’s 
website at www.oldmutual.com/event.

Financial Calendar for the rest of 2012
The Company’s financial calendar for the rest of 2012 is as 
follows: 

Annual General Meeting and First Quarter 
Interim Management Statement

Interim results

Third Quarter Interim Management 
Statement

Interim dividend payment date

10 May 2012

8 August 2012

7 November 2012

30 November 2012

March 2013

  Opening of business  

on 16 April 2012

17 April 2012

18 April 2012

Final results for 2012

20 April 2012

Close of business  
on 20 April 2012

The period  
commencing 
 immediately after  
  close of business on  
20 April 2012  
and ending on  
  opening of business  

on 23 April 2012

  Opening of business  

Admission of New Ordinary Shares to the 
branch registers in South Africa, Malawi and 
Zimbabwe and on the Namibian section of 
the principal register, and commencement 
of dealings in such New Ordinary Shares 
ex-Special Dividend and Final Dividend (in 
each case, on a to be issued basis)

Last day to trade cum dividend for the Final 
Dividend for Ordinary Shareholders on the 
UK register

Ex-dividend date for the Final Dividend for 
Ordinary Shareholders on the UK register

Last day to trade cum dividend for the 
Special Dividend and pre-consolidation for 
Ordinary Shareholders on the UK register

Record Date for entitlement of holders of 
existing Ordinary Shares to Final Dividend, 
Special Dividend and Share Consolidation 
(all registers). No further dealings in existing 
Ordinary Shares on the UK register

Consolidation is effected

New Ordinary Shares admitted to the 
Official List and the LSE and 
commencement of dealings in New 
Ordinary Shares, ex-dividend for the Special 
Dividend

New Ordinary Shares enabled in CREST 
and CREST accounts credited with New 
Ordinary Shares

on 23 April 2012

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gLOSSARy

We have written this glossary to help readers understand certain 
words and jargon used in our industry. In line with our aim of 
writing this report in plain English, the definitions are not precise 
or technical: they should not be used as the basis for making 
investment or other decisions.

A technical glossary of the financial terms can be found on our 
website at www.oldmutual.com 

Actuary
Someone who uses mathematics (in particular, probability) to 
provide solutions to insurance-related problems, for example 
calculating the level of reserves that an insurance company 
should hold to meet its obligations. Actuarial techniques are 
used to design new insurance products and to assess the 
profitability of new and existing business.

Adjusted net worth (ANW)
Represents the market value of the shareholders’ net assets held 
in respect of the insurance business and forms part of the 
embedded value of a life company.

Affiliate
An investment firm specialising in offering specific services 
to a select number of individuals (term is interchangeable 
with boutique).

Annual premium equivalent (APE)
A standardised measure of the volume of new life insurance 
business written. It is calculated as the sum of (annualised) new 
recurring premiums and 10% of the new single premiums written 
in an annual reporting period. It gives a broadly comparable 
measure across companies to allow for differences between 
regular and single premium business.

Annuity
A regular payment from an insurance company made for an 
agreed period of time (usually up to the death of the recipient) in 
return for either a cash lump sum or a series of premiums which 
the policyholder has paid to the insurance company during their 
working lifetime.

Asset management
An investment management service provided by financial 
institutions on behalf of their customers.

Assumptions
Variables applied to data used to project expected outcomes. 
In the life insurance business, when the actuary calculates the 
level of reserves required he/she will make assumptions about 
the future outcome of events. These could include average life 
expectancy and policy surrender rates. These assumptions are 
then applied to the data compiled on life insurance business 
written to project expected outcomes. 

Bancassurance
An arrangement whereby banks and building societies 
sell life, pension and savings products on behalf of other 
financial providers.

Boutique
A small investment firm specialising in offering specific services 
to a select number of individuals (term interchangeable 
with affiliate).

Capital adequacy requirement (CAR)
The level of capital required by Old Mutual Life Assurance 
Company (South Africa) Limited to support its insurance 
business. It is mostly driven by the amount of capital required to 
absorb investment risk, i.e. a fall in the value of investments of 
the business and generally exceeds the level of capital required 
by the South African regulator (called the Statutory Capital 
Adequacy Requirement).

Carbon Disclosure Project
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent 
not-for-profit organisation holding the largest database of 
primary corporate climate change information in the world. 
Thousands of organisations from across the world’s major 
economies measure and disclose their greenhouse gas 
emissions, water use and climate-change strategies through 
CDP. Corporations are rated and the information helps investors, 
corporations and regulators to make more informed decisions.

Certainty equivalent method 
This is a technique used to calculate embedded value which 
involves risk-adjusting future earnings rather than allowing for 
risk separately using an appropriate risk discount rate. The 
earnings from the assets in the business are calculated, before 
tax and investment management expenses. All cash flows are 
discounted using risk free reference rates, which are gross of tax 
and investment management expenses.

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Correlation
Correlation is a statistical measurement of the relationship 
between two variables. Possible correlations range from +1 to -1. 
A zero correlation indicates that there is no relationship between 
the variables. A correlation of -1 indicates a perfect negative 
correlation, meaning that as one variable goes up, the other 
goes down. A correlation of +1 indicates a perfect positive 
correlation, meaning that both variables move in the same 
direction together.

Covered business
A concept defined in the Market Consistent Embedded Value 
(MCEV) principles and guidelines. It refers to long-term business, 
which includes traditional life insurance, long-term healthcare 
and accident insurances, savings, pensions and annuities.

Deferred acquisition costs (DAC)
A method of accounting whereby the acquisition costs on 
insurance business with an extended contractual period are 
recognised over the life of the contracts rather than up front at 
the time of sale. An example of this would be sales commission 
to an insurance broker. The costs are aggregated and 
capitalised on the balance sheet as an asset and amortised 
through the accounts over the contract life.

Deferred annuity
An annuity due to be paid from a future date or when the 
policyholder reaches a specified age. A deferred annuity 
may be funded by the policyholder by payment of a series 
of regular contributions or by a capital sum.

Deferred fee income
A method of accounting whereby fee income is recognised over 
the term of the contract with customers, rather than up front at 
the time of sale. The fees are aggregated and recorded on the 
balance sheet as a liability and amortised through the accounts 
over the term of the contract.

Earnings per share (EPS)
Earnings per Share (EPS) is calculated as post-tax adjusted 
operating profit divided by the adjusted weighted average 
number of shares (WANS) held by our investors. EPS is an 
indicator of our profitability that measures how much we 
earn for each share held.

Economic capital
Market value of assets minus fair value of liabilities. 
Used in practice as a risk-adjusted capital measure; 
specifically, the amount of capital required to meet an 
explicit solvency constraint. 

Embedded value (EV)
Life insurance contracts are usually long term and may involve 
complex payment flows. This means it is difficult to measure 
the value of a life insurance business or how much income it is 
likely to generate over time. EV is a way of indicating what the 
underlying business is worth, based on the total of the net assets 
already invested in the business and the profits expected to 
emerge in the future.

Experience variance
In calculating embedded value of life business, it is necessary 
to make assumptions about items such as lapses or surrenders, 
mortality experience, etc. In any period the actual result for these 
items will differ from the assumed experience; this is known as 
the experience variance.

Financial Groups Directive (FGD)
A financial regime applying to EU-based companies whose 
activities span both the banking and investment sectors and the 
insurance sector. It lays down requirements for the Company’s 
capital position and is intended to improve the stability of the 
financial system, thereby protecting customers.

FGD surplus
This represents the amount of capital in the Company which is 
surplus to the statutory solvency requirement for insurance 
groups as laid down by the Financial Groups Directive.

Financial Services Authority (FSA)
The regulator of financial services in the United Kingdom.

Financial Services Board (FSB)
The regulator of financial services in South Africa.

Funds under management (FUM)
The total value at market prices of funds managed by a company 
on behalf of shareholders and customers.

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General insurance/property and casualty insurance 
(Short-term Insurance)
Non-life insurance mainly concerned with protecting the 
policyholder from loss or damage caused by specific risks. 
Examples include motor, contents and buildings insurance. 
Property insurance covers loss or damage through, for example, 
fire or theft. Casualty insurance covers losses arising from 
accidents that cause injury to other people or damage to 
their property.

In-force
An insurance policy is said to be in-force from its start date until 
the date it is terminated.

Independent financial adviser (IFA)
In the UK an IFA is a person or organisation authorised to 
give advice on financial matters and to sell the products of all 
financial services providers. IFAs are regulated by the Financial 
Services Authority.

Insurance
A contract taken out with an insurer to give financial protection 
against loss from a perceived risk. The person taking out the 
insurance is called the insured. Payments for the policy are 
called premiums.

International financial reporting standards (IFRS)
Accounting regulations that all publicly listed companies in the 
EU are required to use. They are designed to ensure companies 
prepare their accounts in a similar way so that there is a 
common basis for comparison.

Key risk indicator (KRI)
A metric that is indicative of the trend of risk exposures for a 
particular risk or group of risks.

Lapses/withdrawals/surrenders
The voluntary termination of a policy by a policyholder before the 
maturity date.

Life insurance
An insurance contract which promises the payment of an agreed 
sum of money upon the death of the insured within a specified 
period of time. Also known as life assurance.

Liquidity headroom
Unencumbered available free cash and committed facilities 
available to Old Mutual plc.

Liquidity premium
A liquidity premium can be viewed as compensation for the 
lower liquidity of corporate bonds compared to government debt 
and for the risk that the market value of bonds will fall prior to 
maturity due to increasing credit spreads.

Long-term business
A term used by the Group to describe its life, health and 
pensions business and includes both insured and non-insured 
business. The term is broadly used throughout the industry, for 
example it is a UK regulatory expression broadly equivalent to life 
insurance and pensions.

Long-term investment return (LTIR)
The long-term return that Old Mutual assumes can realistically 
be earned on its investible shareholder assets when calculating 
Adjusted Operating Profit. Long-term investment return rates are 
reviewed annually and reflect the returns expected on the 
chosen asset classes.

Loss data
Data regarding direct losses experienced by the organisation as 
a result of events caused by a failure of people, process, 
systems and/or external events.

Management action plan
An action or actions developed by management that are usually 
triggered by one or more of the following:

 ■ Risk exposure greater than risk appetite
 ■ Control breakdowns or weaknesses
 ■ Key risk indicator threshold breaches
 ■ Loss events
 ■ Audit findings

Market consistent embedded value (MCEV)
A standard of reporting for life insurance companies that we have 
chosen to use. It provides a common set of principles and 
guidelines for use in calculating embedded value. MCEV attempts 
to measure the value of business in-force based on a set of best 
estimate assumptions, allowing for the impact of uncertainty in 
future investment returns. It is designed to provide an accurate 
reflection of the performance of long-term savings business and 
a method of comparing companies on a consistent basis.

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Maturity
The date that an insurance policy or other financial contract 
finishes or ‘matures’ and the benefit becomes payable.

Minority interests
These are the proportion of the Group’s earnings on balance 
sheet net assets that are not owned by the Group’s ordinary 
equity shareholders, for example preference shareholders of the 
Group or the independent shareholders of Nedbank. 

Mutual fund/unit trust
Fund of shares, bonds and other assets held by a manager for 
the benefit of investors who buy units in the fund, effectively 
pooling their money with that of other investors. It enables 
investors to achieve a more diversified portfolio than they might 
have done by making an individual investment.

Net client cash flow (NCCF)
The difference between money received from customers (eg 
premiums, deposits and investments) and money given back to 
customers (eg claims, surrenders, maturities) during the period.

Net risk (also known as ‘Residual Risk’)
A net risk is defined as the result of an assessment of the 
potential impact and likelihood of a risk, after taking account of 
the design adequacy and operating effectiveness of the controls 
put in place to manage the risk.

Non-profit policy
Insurance cover guaranteeing certain benefits, but where the 
policyholder bears no investment risk and does not gain or lose if 
returns differ from expectations. Pure risk business such as annuities 
and health insurance is normally written on a non-profit basis.

Open-architecture
Where a company offers investment products from a range of 
other companies in addition to its own products. This gives 
customers a wider choice of funds to invest in and access to a 
larger pool of money management professionals.

Operational risk scenarios
Foreseeable, hypothetical events relating to failure of people, 
processes, systems and/or external events that potentially could 
have a significant impact on an organisation’s risk profile or capital.

Pension
A regular payment received by an individual during their 
retirement until their death. A pension is usually bought through 
the payment of regular contributions during the individual’s 
working lifetime. It may be a legal insurance contract but is not 
always the case.

Platform
Online services used by intermediaries and consumers to view 
and administer their investment portfolios. Platforms provide 
facilities for buying and selling investments (including, in the UK, 
Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), Self-Invested Personal 
Pensions (SIPPs) and life insurance) and for viewing an 
individual’s entire portfolio to assess asset allocation and risk 
exposure.

Premium
The payment a policyholder makes in return for insurance cover. 
A single-premium contract involves a single lump sum payment 
made at the start of the contract. Under a regular-premium 
contract the policyholder agrees at the start to make regular 
payments throughout the term of the contract.

Probability distribution
A mathematical description of a range of possible values for 
a certain variable, identifying the likelihood of each possible 
value occurring.

Real world economic assumptions
The expected return is based on a projection from beginning of 
period to end of period for investment return. This requires 
assumptions regarding the investment returns expected to be 
achieved over the period. The investment return assumptions 
(for this purpose only) are based on the ‘real world’ returns in 
excess of the risk free reference rate. The use of real world 
investment assumptions gives a more realistic basis for the 
expected return calculation and allows for returns commensurate 
with the risk underlying each asset class. Any under or over 
performance of actual investment returns over the real world 
economic assumption will be reported through economic 
variance. These have no bearing on the calculated MCEV 
other than the calculation of the expected existing business 
contribution in the analysis of MCEV earnings.

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Risk identification
The qualitative determination of risks that are material, i.e. those 
that potentially can impact the organisation’s achievement of its 
financial and/or strategic objectives.

Risk management framework
A set of components that provide the foundations and 
organisational arrangements for designing, implementing, 
monitoring, reviewing and continually improving risk 
management processes throughout the organisation.

Risk policies
Policies that set out the minimum, mandatory requirements that 
businesses must follow to mitigate key Group risks.

Risk profile
The entire portfolio of risks organised by risk category that are 
found within a particular organisation.

Scenario
A predicted sequence of events.

Scenario analysis
Scenario analysis is a process of analysing possible future 
events by considering possible outcomes or scenarios.

Solvency II
Solvency II is a fundamental review of the capital adequacy 
regime for the European insurance industry. It aims to 
establish a revised set of EU-wide capital requirements and 
risk management standards that will replace the current 
solvency requirements.

Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR)
The SCR is the capital required to ensure that the (re)insurance 
company will be able to meet its obligations over the next 12 
months with a probability of at least 99.5%.

Standard formula
A non-entity-specific risk-based mathematical formula used by 
insurers to calculate their Solvency Capital Requirement under 
Solvency II, if the company is not using an internal model.

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Return on equity (RoE)
A measure calculated by dividing profit after tax by the average 
amount of equity in the business. Equity indicates how much 
capital provided or belonging to shareholders is tied up in 
the business.

Reverse stress testing
Reverse stress-tests are stress tests (see definition of ‘stress and 
scenario testing’ below) that require a firm to assess scenarios 
and circumstances that would render its business model 
unviable, thereby identifying potential business vulnerabilities. 
Reverse stress-testing starts from an outcome of business failure 
and identifies circumstances where this might occur. 

Risk
The threat of an event that will limit the organisation’s ability to 
achieve its business objectives. Risk is often expressed in terms 
of a combination of the consequences of an event or a change in 
circumstances and the associated likelihood of occurrence.

Risk adjusted performance measures
A metric that measures returns based on the quantum of risk 
taken to generate those returns. We use it to assess the 
attractiveness of different business units in allocating our capital.

Risk appetite
The level of risk an organisation is willing to take in the pursuit 
of profit. 

Risk assessment
This is a forward-looking and subjective process whereby risks 
are identified and exposure to risk is assessed or measured in 
the context of the business objectives. There are typically two 
aspects to the assessment of risk, one being the likelihood of 
risk occurring and the second being the impact of the risk.

Risk-based capital
Risk-based capital is the minimum amount of capital that an 
organisation needs to support its overall business operations. 
Risk-based capital is used to set capital requirements 
considering the nature, scale and complexity of the organisation.

Risk categorisation
A process for classifying risks possessing common qualities or 
quantities. Risk categorisation is used to collate information in 
a concise profile.

Risk exposure
Means the capital required to meet the business’s current 
exposure to risk.

Risk free reference rate
The rate at which actual assets held earn income and the rate 
at which earnings are discounted in the MCEV calculation. 

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Value of new business (VNB)
The discounted value of the future profits expected to arise 
from all new business sold during a reporting period. VNB is 
calculated by using actuarial assumptions.

With-profit
A type of investment policy in which extra amounts (bonuses) 
may be added to the sum assured to reflect profits earned 
during the course of the contract. Regular bonuses are usually 
added each year and, once declared, are usually guaranteed. 
A final or ‘terminal’ bonus may be added when the policy 
becomes payable.

Wrap platform
An investment platform which enables investment funds, 
pensions, direct equity holdings and some life insurance 
contracts to be held in the same administrative account 
rather than as separate holdings.

Statistical distribution
An arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed 
or theoretical frequency of occurrence, eg frequency distribution 
– a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the 
values of a variable.

Stress and scenario testing
Stress and scenario tests test the firm’s resilience in the face 
of adverse conditions. For example, to test adverse market 
conditions, a set of economic stresses are defined, such as a 
rise in interest rates or drop in markets, and the firm must then 
calculate if it has sufficient capital to withstand these stresses. 

Sum assured
The lump sum benefit payable under an insurance policy or 
contract in circumstances which are defined within the policy; 
eg the amount payable on the death of the policyholder.

Technical provisions
Amounts set aside on the basis of actuarial calculations to meet 
forecast future obligations to policyholders. Otherwise known 
as reserves.

Underwriting profit (general insurance)
A generally accepted non-life insurance term, also referred to 
as underwriting result, representing earned premiums minus 
the cost of claims and operating expenses. It indicates whether 
premiums cover claims and expenses or not.

Unit-linked policy
A type of long-term savings plan where premiums are used to 
buy units in an investment fund, such as a unit trust, and the 
benefits will be linked to the value of the underlying units rather 
than being fixed or guaranteed at the start of the plan.

Value of in-force business (VIF)
Part of the embedded value of a life insurance company. It 
represents the discounted value of the profits expected to arise 
from the in-force business. VIF is calculated using a set of 
actuarial, economic and operational assumptions.

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Old Mutual is an international  
long-term savings, protection  
and investment group

OVERVIEW

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Our business at a glance
Delivering on our strategy
Business model
Key performance indicators

2 
4 
6 
8 
10  Chairman’s statement
12  Group Chief Executive’s statement
18  Group Chief Executive’s Q&A
20  Market review

bUSINESS REVIEW

Long-Term Savings

24 
34  Banking
44  Short-Term Insurance
48  US Asset Management
54 

 Non-core and discontinued business 
operations

58  Group Finance Director’s statement 

RISk AND 
RESPONSIbILITy

72  Risk and capital management
86  Responsible business

gOVERNANCE

90  Board of directors
94  Group Executive Committee 
96 

 Directors’ report on Corporate Governance 
and other matters

109  Remuneration report

Group Financial Statements
126  Statement of directors’ responsibilities 
127  Consolidated income statement
128 

 Consolidated statement of comprehensive 
income
 Reconciliation of adjusted operating profit to 
profit after tax

129 

130  Consolidated statement of financial position
131  Consolidated statement of cash flows
132  Consolidated statement of changes in equity
134  Notes to the consolidated financial statements

Financial Statements of the Company
232  Company statement of financial position
233  Company statement of cash flows
234  Company statement of changes in equity
235  Notes to the Company financial statements

241 

 Independent auditor’s report to the members 
of Old Mutual plc

MCEV
242  Statement of directors’ responsibilities 
243 
244 
245 

Independent auditor’s report
 Adjusted Group MCEV by line of business
 Adjusted operating Group MCEV statement 
of earnings
 Adjusted operating Group MCEV earnings 
per share
 Group Market Consistent Embedded Value 
statement of earnings 
 Notes to the MCEV basis supplementary 
information

246 

247 

248 

ShAREhOLDER 
INFORMATION

286  Shareholder information
290  Glossary

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Forward-looking statements
This Report contains certain forward-looking statements with 
respect to Old Mutual plc’s and its subsidiaries’ plans and 
expectations relating to their financial condition, performance 
and results. By their nature, forward-looking statements 
involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to future 
events and circumstances that are beyond Old Mutual plc’s 
control, including, among other things, UK domestic and 
general economic and business conditions, market-related 
risks such as fluctuations in interest rates and exchange 
rates, policies and actions of regulatory authorities, the 
impact of competition, inflation, deflation, the timing and 
impact of other uncertainties or of future acquisitions or 
combinations within relevant industries, as well as the impact 
of tax and other legislation and regulations in territories where 
Old Mutual plc or its subsidiaries operate.

As a result, Old Mutual plc’s or its subsidiaries’ actual future 
financial condition, performance and results may differ 
materially from the plans and expectations set forth in such 
forward-looking statements. Old Mutual plc undertakes no 
obligation to update any forward-looking statements 
contained in this Report or any other forward-looking 
statements that it may make.

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